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The Forest and the Desert is a metaphor for thinking about software development processes, developed by Beth Anders-Beck and her father Kent Beck. It posits that two communities of software developers have great difficulty communicating to each other because they live in very different contexts, so advice that applies to one sounds like...

Everyone is fascinated about using generative AI these days, and my colleagues are no exception. Some of them have had the opportunity to put these system into practice, both as proof-of-concept, and more importantly as production system. I've known Bharani Subramaniam for many years as a technology leader in India, he's...

Luca Rossi hosts a podcast (and newsletter) called Refactoring, so it's obvious that we have some interests in common. The tile comes from me leaning heavily on Beth Anders-Beck and Kent Beck's metaphor of The Forest and The Desert. We talk about the impact of AI on software development, the metaphor of technical debt, and...

I've got into the habit of starting the New Year by sharing six favorite albums I discovered during the last year. This years set includes Celtic jazz, trip-hop neo-fado, jazz-fusion for the 2020's, playful harmonies, and a vibrant collaboration between Indian classical musicians and a string quartet. (I was also unable...

As a library developer, you may create a popular utility that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on daily, such as lodash or React. Over time, usage patterns might emerge that go beyond your initial design. When this happens, you may need to extend an API by adding parameters or modifying function signatures to fix...