Software Lesson Thought of the Day for 25/5/2023
I frequently wish that software was harder to change. If it was then maybe I wouldn’t have to spend so much time changing it.
Software Lesson Thought of the Day for 25/5/2023
I frequently wish that software was harder to change. If it was then maybe I wouldn’t have to spend so much time changing it.
This dropped theough my letterbox today and I’m very excited to finally be able to read it
Software Lesson of the Day for 2/12/2022. Rather than waste all that time writing a perfect universal .net object copy library that copes with every possible variation of nested reference types, value types, fields, properties, statics, and twenty-plus years of special cases and regret and technical debt baked into the framework… just serialise your damn source object to json and de-serialise it back out again. And then be on your way.
Software Lesson of the Day for 17/11/2022: A quick hack. Every time you do the equivalent of File->New Project
for something other then a trivial test app, make a note of it. After a while, take a look at your notes and see how often you’re actually creating new stuff. Have a think about that: about what is enabling you to do that, and perhaps more importantly what’s stopping you.
Software Lesson of the Day for 2022-10-04: Note to self. If you’re struggling to create a generic, reusable, well factored, abstraction to implement a simple, application-specific piece of functionality – then it may just be that instead you can get away with a couple of simple data fields and a static function or two. Remember this for the next time.
(Lets see if I can remember to do this more often…)
Me: Ok Google – remind me to do my expenses on Friday
The algorithm: When do you want to be reminded?
Me: 9am
The algorithm: Ok. I’ll remind you to “do my expenses on Friday” tomorrow at 9am
Me: FFS… Ok Google cancel that reminder
The algorithm: Ok I’ve cancelled the reminder “do my expenses on Friday”
Me: Ok Google – on Friday remind me to do my expenses
The algorithm: When do you want to be reminded
Me: 9am
The algorithm: Ok. I’ll remind you to “do my expenses” on Friday at 9am
Global conquest by our AI overlords may need to be put back a bit.