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"Not that I would repress the impulse, you understand, any more than I would starve any other part of my nature."
Lewis Campbell's Blog
Software Testing, Distributed Systems, and miscellaneous Programming.
Latest posts
A Guide to Agile for English Speakers
Useful vocabulary for weary travellers, and those held captive.
Short Reflection on being Offline for 24 hours
Taking a brief off-ramp from the information highway.
Why I think Rust is Object Oriented
If it quacks like a duck, and implements the Duck trait...
Reject Agility, Embrace Specification
Rebuilding Software Engineering in the Post-Agile world.
The Decline of Search Engines is an Opportunity
Enshittifcation is a blessing in disguise.
The User Doesn't Care - But you should
Debunking one of the most poisonous myths in programming.
Saying Goodbye to Agile
Software's "Agile moment" has been and gone.
Reading English from 1000 AD
The past was not as foreign as we think.
Rust is Just a Tool
A programming language should not be your identity.
The Insecure Evangelism of LLM Maximalists
I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.
Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs
Missing the Forest for the Sequence Trees.
Basic Type System Terminology
Sound more intelligent on the internet with these quick and easy tips.
Getting Started with Randomised Testing
A small step to a massive improvement in software reliability.
NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
Advanced Testing and Determinism
Trying to elevate the testing discourse.
The Business Case for Vanilla JS
Why the least enterprise solution may be the best for enterprise.
Safety in Programming Languages is a Means to an End
There are few meaningful guarantees ere the code is run.
How I think about Zig and Rust
21st century systems languages, with fundamentally different philosophies.
Do Files want to be Actors?
Is 1970s distributed systems theory finally meeting 2020s kernel development?
Shared Data Services or Sending Messages?
Supply chain visibility happens node by node.
A Taxonomy of Supply Chain Data Capture
How to make sense of the chaos, and what direction to go in.
Does Supply Chain Know what a Blockchain is?
Must the gulf between supply chain professionals and software technologists remain forever vast?
Wisdom from Computing's Past
Learning from the past without trying to live in it.
Software Maintenance for Business Owners
Software maintenance defined in terms of cars.
95% Programming
Static Analysis as a useful tool, not a moral imperative.
A Sheep Ate My Internet
The reality of rural internet for software development.