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Software Design: Tidy First?

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

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Baking a Model

I remember walking to the bus from high school, staring at a Motorola 6800 instruction set manual.

Busy is Short Volatility

The brutal tyranny of the Kingman Formula

Speculative Short Volatility & Neglectful Short Volatility

Timing is one distinguishing feature of the Tidy First worldview.

Canon 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract

I’ve started a series of Canon articles where I explain my ideas as plainly & unambiguously as possible—no analogies, no persuasion, just the facts.

How Do You Know That?

Stream the latest episode

Long Vol: What is Volatility?

Some basic assumptions:

Long Volatility Development

Outline

The Beginnings of an Idea: XP is Long Volatility

What does this mean?

When Complaints Are Good News

Hint--it's in Explore & Expand

Air Traffic Control

Keith Adams has spent his career at the systems layer, with nine years at VMware, the founding of Facebook's HHVM team, and a run as chief architect at Slack.