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YAGNI Was Never About Saving Effort — It's About Keeping Options Open

If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.

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newsletter.kentbeck.com·Hacker News: Front Page·19d ago·5 min read

Design Patterns for Humans: An Ultra-Simplified Guide to Software Design Patterns

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github.com23d ago

Process-First Design: Standardizing Software Design Around Actions, Not Entities

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leanpub.com25d ago

Why Duplication Beats the Wrong Abstraction in Software Development

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sandimetz.com26d ago

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap: Understanding before changing

The British Writer and Catholic apologist G. K. Chesterton is, perhaps, most well known to programmers through a paragraph in which he introduces what is now known as “Chesterton’s fence”. It’s a very simple idea: You walk through a field and see a fence

Insightbooksphilosophyprogrammingstephantul.github.io·Hacker News: Front Page·1mo ago·3 min read

TorkBot's octopus architecture: A centralized AI agent with semi-autonomous appendages

The octopus architecture describes a system with a central coordinating brain that dispatches to semi-autonomous sub-brains.

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blog.goodman.dev·Hacker News: Front Page·1mo ago·5 min read

The Decline of Technical Proficiency: How Modern Software Design Is Eroding Power Users' Skills

There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working

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fireborn.mataroa.blog·Hacker News: Front Page·1mo ago·24 min read

Understanding Software Architecture: Balancing Design Importance with Practical Programming

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martinfowler.com1mo ago

Why Programming Languages Need Safety Features: A Parable of Speed vs. Protection

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dreamsongs.com1mo ago

Why "Fits on a Floppy" remains a relevant measure of software quality in 2026

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theregister.com1mo ago

Aperio: A Programming Language Optimized for LLM-Driven Workflows

Aperio language documentation.

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aperio-lang.github.io2mo ago

Why boolean parameters make code harder to read (and what to use instead)

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allthingssmitty.com2mo ago

Embed AI Agents Into Software, Don't Treat Them as Coworkers

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feldera.com2mo ago

Software Design Philosophy: Good Software Knows Its Purpose and Boundaries

Good software knows what problem it solves and what needs to be tackled by another tool

Opiniontechnologyprogrammingsoftware designogirardot.writizzy.com·Hacker News: Front Page·4mo ago·2 min read

Software Integrity and the Surface Tension Metaphor: How Systems Maintain Structural Cohesion

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iamstelios.com7mo ago

YAGNI Was Never About Saving Effort — It's About Keeping Options Open

Design Patterns for Humans: An Ultra-Simplified Guide to Software Design Patterns

Process-First Design: Standardizing Software Design Around Actions, Not Entities

Why Duplication Beats the Wrong Abstraction in Software Development

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap: Understanding before changing

TorkBot's octopus architecture: A centralized AI agent with semi-autonomous appendages

The Decline of Technical Proficiency: How Modern Software Design Is Eroding Power Users' Skills

Understanding Software Architecture: Balancing Design Importance with Practical Programming

Why Programming Languages Need Safety Features: A Parable of Speed vs. Protection

Why "Fits on a Floppy" remains a relevant measure of software quality in 2026

Aperio: A Programming Language Optimized for LLM-Driven Workflows

Why boolean parameters make code harder to read (and what to use instead)

Embed AI Agents Into Software, Don't Treat Them as Coworkers

Software Design Philosophy: Good Software Knows Its Purpose and Boundaries

Software Integrity and the Surface Tension Metaphor: How Systems Maintain Structural Cohesion

The True Story Behind Windows 3.1's Infamous 'Hot Dog Stand' Color Scheme

Debate Over LGBT-Themed Progress Bars in Software Customization

Building Software for Biological Systems: When Code Meets Rot and Fermentation