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Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59
museapp.comKai Krause on how short-lived software is relative to other art forms:
You can hum a tune you once liked, years later. You can read words or look a painting from 300 years ago and still appreciate its truth and beauty today, as if brand new. Software, by that comparison, is more like Soufflé: enjoy it now, today, for... See more
Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time... See more
Byrne Hobart • Building for Power Users
Seven attributes of good software: simple, consistent, composable, scalable, obvious, communicative, and accommodating. Some old and new ideas mixed together in one place.
Ken Kociendatwitter.comEnterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
amazon.comAWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Q, the Most Capable Generative AI-Powered Assistant for Accelerating Software Development and Leveraging Companies’ Internal Data
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Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the
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