A Million Patterns Versus One Codebase
Why software architecture keeps failing, and how a few ideas from empirical philosophy offer a way to ground it in what users see.
Writing
Articles on web development, machine learning and how I work.
The Metaphysics of Code
My book in progress: what software really is, and why that matters in practice. In English.
What Makes Software Good?
Why common software metrics are opinions, and why the user's screen is a firmer ground for judging code.
The Pragmatism Fallacy
Why "it works, it's in production" is a weak defense of tangled code, and what taking pride in design looks like.
From Personal Preference to Precise Language
How to replace taste-based code debates with a clear vocabulary, and how to organize a codebase around what users perceive.
The Central Contradiction of Scalable Software
Why large codebases get hard to change, and how fast feedback and a UI-first design address it, with the claims that could prove me wrong.
The Gaslighting of Software Engineering
A speech about how complexity gets used as status in software teams, and why the user's screen is a clearer ground for judging tools.
Web development
React Hooks + RxJS, or How React Is Meant to Be
A way to share state in React with RxJS subjects and a small custom hook, without Redux or MobX.
Test-Driven Development and React
How to build a React app test-first by moving state and event handling out of React and into one pure reduce function.
I Don't Like GraphQL, So How About JSON and TypeScript?
Why I think plain JSON and TypeScript could replace GraphQL's query syntax for querying databases.
My Experience Getting Started with WebRTC
Why the WebRTC API is harder than it looks, and how splitting my client into three modules made connection setup clear.
Machine learning
Dissecting My Confusion: Support-Vector Machine
A walk through SVM, kernel functions and the kernel trick, and why their names confused me more than the math.
Why Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Is My Favorite Subject in Computer Science
What I took from my Knowledge Representation and Reasoning course, from Answer Set Programming to the Cyc knowledge base.
