The beauty of finished software
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The beauty of finished software
when you get software right, something magical happens: You don’t need hordes of programmers to keep it working. You don’t need massive requirements documents and huge issue tracking systems.
Robert C. Martin • Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)
Deliver the Bare Minimum
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Most software we use at work exists in one of two categories:
- It’s new and we love it for now.
- It’s old but we have to use it and we hate it.
Benjamin Rollert • Excel Never Dies
Adding more features, piling more complexity on top of something doesn’t necessarily make it better or more useful. Doing that just adds bloat. Doing that shoehorns something simple into a form that it perhaps was never really meant to take.
Scott Nesbitt • Expectations Out of Whack
And this also brings us to the why now and and why is this hard if this is the fully generalized form of digital documents, why didn't software start this way? I think a big part of it is just that it's hard. We talked about how it's hard to write a text editor, but what if you now need to write a text editor and image editor, a video editor and au... See more