In games from Animal Crossing to Path of Exile, play starts with world exploration. How does physics work here? What can I do? Software development is the same way. Here’s my video from GOTO Chicago 2020. Also, I did a version at Philly ETE (video):
The inaugural REdeployConf wrapped up yesterday (as I write this). I’m already feeling withdrawal from intense learning and conversations. I’ll attempt to summarize them in this post. The RE in REdeploy doesn’t mean “again” (lo, it is the first of its kind). RE stands for Resilience Engineering. It is a newish field, focused on sociotechnical …
It’s all that THAT Conference is not THOSE conferences. It’s about the developer as more than a single unit: this year, in multiple ways. I talked about our team as a system — more than a system, a symmathesy. Cory House said that if you want to change your life, change your systems. As humans, our greatest power …
Sometimes multiple pieces of the industry converge on an idea fromdifferent directions. This is a sign the idea is important. Yesterday I spoke at React Rally (video coming later) about theconfluence of React and Flux in the front end with functionalprogramming in the back end. Both embody principles of composition, declarativestyle, isolation, and unidirectional flow …
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Notes from Craft Conference 2015, Budapest. Craft conference was all about microservices this year.[1] Yet, it was about so much more at the same time — even when it was talking about microservices. lobby of the venue. Very cool, and always packed Dan and I went on about microservices in our opening keynote,[2] about how it’s not …
Every conference has little themes for me. Here’s one from Philly ETE this week. The opening keynote from Tom Igoe, founder of Arduino, displayed examples of unique and original projects. Many of them were built for one person – a device to tell her mother whether she’s taken this pill already today, or to help …
GOTO Amsterdam started with a retrospective on Java, and ended with the admonition that even Waterfall was an advancement in its time. The conference encouraged building on the past, renewing and adding for growth. As our bodies renew themselves, replacing cells so we’re never quite the same organism; so our software wants renewal and gradual …
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Notes from #qconnewyorkI went into programming because I loved the predictability of it. Unlike physics, programs were deterministic at every scale. That’s not true anymore – and it doesn’t mean programming isn’t fun. This came out in some themes of QCon New York 2014. In the evening keynote, Peter Wang told us we’ve been sitting …
Read moreLimitations of Abstraction, and the Code+Coder symbiosis