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https://bsky.app/profile/tudorgirba.com/post/3lmajajlwr22f
Published: April 7, 2025 17:45
Glamorous Toolkit made on the front page of Hacker News. Some interesting conversations happening there. In particular, quite a number of comments say that it's not clear how it works, what it does, and even why it exists at all:…
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Published: March 30, 2025 08:21
I still see the unfortunate advice saying that debuggers are not useful and that tests is all we need. Tests are useful, but so are debuggers, particularly when they are made to match your system.
Here is a talk by Andrei Chis showing how that works in…
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Published: March 27, 2025 22:49
Before talking about how you want to change your system, first make sure you see your current system. Really see it. That's a prerequisite. Oh, and manually created diagrams and documents do not count.
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Published: March 27, 2025 13:26
Ask n technical people "what is architecture?" and you might get n+1 answers.
Change the question slightly to "what is architecture for?" and you will get just one: to support decision making.
Read about software engineering as decision making in the…
https://bsky.app/profile/tudorgirba.com/post/3ll5dc7tfqk2y
Published: March 24, 2025 17:55
Code is not a crime scene.
It's a wonderful phenomenon waiting to be discovered and appreciated.
https://bsky.app/profile/tudorgirba.com/post/3ll2r75ww2s2c
Published: March 23, 2025 17:26
When was the last time you heard developers talk about how they read code?
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Published: March 22, 2025 08:26
"Software engineering is a decision making process... By decreasing the time it takes to ask and answer questions, we get to churn through more of them. The more we do that, the more likely it is to discover new value and interesting solutions."
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https://bsky.app/profile/tudorgirba.com/post/3lkw5ffgyzs27
Published: March 21, 2025 21:21
A) Code reflects architecture.
B) Architecture reflects code.
For the longest time, our industry ran under the assumption that only A) is true. This led to a world of pain because, well, that's what happens if you ignore B).
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Published: March 14, 2025 17:15
Here is a database engineer that onboarded himself into Glamorous Toolkit giving a tour of how to use it to work with PostgreSQL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4ygzMf1o8
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Published: March 13, 2025 00:03
Here it is. The fourth chapter of the Rewinding Software Engineering book that @swardley.bsky.social and I are writing in the open.
It covers quite some ground: from the need to make systems explainable to the characteristics our development environments…