This is a common challenge once a company has built enough “stuff”. The burden of maintenance and the difficulties in refactoring makes one cry out for “Simplicity, now! ’. A common perception of reducing complexity is to “dumb things down”, this is a reaction to the tension of it being difficult to untangle things.

This post contain learnings from over twenty years working as a programmer and close to half a century living on this planet. I met my partner over a decade ago, not long into our relationship we had a conversation: “why do you say things as if you know them, when you don’t?

The title of this post is a phrase often repeated in the onboarding process at my current company (and probably many others too). It sounds like a pretty straight forward thing doesn’t it? What kind of person would not automatically do this?

I had read the term many times on the Internet from people who’s been vocal on certain topics which for different reasons turn out to be controversial. https://en. wikipedia. I encountered this term for the first time when I was being vocal about an IT conference in Norway which I thoughts had a highly inappropriate name (post in 🇳🇴 Den Norske Dataforening sitt manglende gangsyn) .

All my "On. " posts are things I write from beginning to end without any editing or thinking about structure (so it's like all other posts? ). They are just dumps of thoughts I've had which I deem that maybe they're useful for something or someone, so I'll just dump it here where nobody actually sees them.