I am generally not a fan of turning public infrastructure into advertising spaces, but I'm willing to make an exception for this ad on an Oslo bus for the world accordion championship.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
@rebeccawb.bsky.social
SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns enthusiast, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener, amateur baker wirfs-brock.com/rebecca
A report that reflects on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop held at PLoP 2025 (Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Processes) conference wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... If you are interested in furthering the conversation (or getting involved) please reach out.
Rebecca’s Web – Pattern Languages Will Save the World!
This report is a reflection on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop, an Imagination Run Wild session held at PLoP 2025.
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my personal heuristic is "Have I asked @rebeccawb.bsky.social yet?"
Friday reading...another patterns paper I co-authored with Karl Evard and presented at PLoP25: on flow-focused testing strategies: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape...
Rebecca’s Web – Flow Focused Testing Strategies
After evaluating the Test Pyramid and alternative testing suite shapes, we present an alternate system testing strategy and first version of a testing pattern language centered around flows.
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Why do design patterns often fail to have an impact? How might we remedy that? The paper I wrote with Chris Kohls for the PLoP 2025 conference,"Patterns and their Umwelt: How to Make Patterns Come to Life" wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... offers advice for writing, maintaining&evolving patterns
Rebecca’s Web – Patterns and their Umwelt
Patterns and pattern descriptions can fail because they insufficiently account for the umwelt—the situated perceptions, experiences, intentions, and values of authors, designers, users, and the contex...
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
Just posted: a pre-print version of the paper I wrote w Lise Hvatum for EuroPLoP 2025: What it Means to Be A Patterns Community: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... For those who build communities, I'd love to hear your thoughts &heuristics you've used to keep communities alive, thriving, &energized.
Rebecca’s Web – What It Means to Be a Patterns Community
A reflection on the central values and characteristics of the Hillside Group patterns community.
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OK...I invite you to join this discussion, now you know when it is. (Time is notoriously hard to model BTW)
Virtual Domain-Driven Design@virtualddd.com · 6mo agoManaging community events across time zones is never easy, time zones 1 - 0 organisers. Last week, we made a scheduling mistake for our upcoming session "Critically Engaging with Models" with @rebeccawb.bsky.social. buff.ly/6tJcZMh ...
NEW POST I had a conversation with Unmesh Joshi, and Rebecca Parsons where we talked about the feedback loop between the "what" and "how" in software development, and the role LLMs play in it. martinfowler.com/articles/con...
Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop
How the feedback loop between “what” and “how” shapes programming structure — and how paradigms and LLMs fit into that loop.
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It'll be me leading the discussion. I'm looking forward to it! Come, bring your favorite model and your questions.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock@rebeccawb.bsky.social · 7mo agoYou can read the essay we will be debating here: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog... I hope you join us for a lively discussion.
I've been on an exceptionally lucky streak playing wordle. Today in 2! Wordle 1,672 2/6 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 91/99 And now, back to reality and working on taxes.....:-(
You can read the essay we will be debating here: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog... I hope you join us for a lively discussion.
Rebecca’s Web – Critically Engaging With Models
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock On the Web
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Virtual Domain-Driven Design@virtualddd.com · 7mo agoWe've scheduled a session! @rebeccawb.bsky.social & @mathiasverraes.bsky.social will discuss 'Critically Engaging with Models'. Learn to evaluate models and their limitations. Pre-reading their essay advised. Jan 28, 8 PM CET. buff.ly/LXXZsu2
Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 9mo agoFox guest on how to save money during the holidays: "Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"I’ve seen things in bounded space" (suno.com/s/s126xbKu0s...) is the soundtrack of our "the DDD Horror Picture Show" talk with @paulinejamin.bsky.social Next and final performance at @newcrafts.bsky.social Paris next week. See you there.
I’ve seen things in bounded space
Listen and make your own on Suno.
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The quote "All models are wrong but some are useful" should not be read as an excuse to stick with your model. It's a call to actively search for more useful models.
Our annual patterns conference (PLoP) is Oct 12-15. We're opening up Sunday for 1/2 day workshops. $100 for workshop + dinner. Choices: Architecture & Application Modernization Patterns or Fearless Change Patterns and using them to create organizational change ti.to/hillside/plo... Join us!
PLoP 2025
Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices
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Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 10mo agoTrump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.
I love this! All projects should have to provide documentary evidence of the remaining mess when the project is officially done. mastodon.social/@cmconseils/...
Laura Manach :bongoCat: (@cmconseils@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Hard agree
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We're celebrating 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine on October 22 🎉 We want to hear from you: Why is the Wayback Machine important to YOU? Make a short video & share it with hashtag #Wayback1T 🤳 Let's celebrate a trillion memories together. INFO ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/23/
“Every model makes a choice about what is important, what categories we classify things in, what we see, what’s invisible, what’s valued, or even what’s valid.“ — @rebeccawb.bsky.social and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social from the paper we’re discussing on Monday, Oct 6 👇
Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 11mo agoNext in the #PapersInSystems Discussion Series: Critically Engaging with Models, by @rebeccawb.bsky.social and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social When: October 6th, 2025, 1–2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada) Paper: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog... More info/Sign-up: ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Domain-Driven Design London's next event is 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in London! @icooper.bsky.social will be presenting 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. Grab your tickets here: dddlondon.com/events/responsibility-driven-design/
Responsibility-Driven Design Revisited | Domain-Driven Design London
Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) is the key technique for splitting our system into co-operating objects. How do we use it with other techniques to apply modern DDD?
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I hope you can join the Fearless Change Campfire free virtual event on Oct 3, 9 a.m. EDT. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising will host this event...with a lot of story telling and sharing of how people have made changes in their organizations. I'm going, just to hear others' wisdom!
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
This year marks the 32nd year of the PLoP conference held in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge at Skamania Lodge. Spark your creativity. Satisfy your itch to explore the potential of patterns. Submit a proposal for an Imagination Run Wild session. Feel free to ask me Qs See: plopcon.org/plop2025/
I’m doing a thing! I don’t think the problem with Democrats is our policies, or that some of us are trans. It’s that too many Democrats are desperate to be liked by people they look down on. I don’t look down on baristas: I was one. I hope to be of service again.
Beth Andres-Beck@beth4ma.bsky.social · last yr.I am running for Congress to fight for our country. I’m not here to be polite – I am here to stand up for the working class. Together we’ll prove what should’ve been obvious all along: trans people aren’t political props - we’re leaders. Visit bethfordemocracy.com to learn more about our campaign!
I'm looking forward to DDD Europe next week! I'm leading a hands-on workshop, Expanding Your Design Heuristics one Experiment at a Time... where we'll be designing experiments and learning about sharing/collecting our design heuristics. 2025.dddeurope.com
DDD Europe 2025 - Software Modelling & Design Conference
2025.dddeurope.com
I'm excited to be running a brand new ✨ hands-on 🙌 workshop at @dddeu.bsky.social in a week's time! Join me for 2 hours of design as we explore a problem. What is design? I'll tell you via the #ACEDmodel #software #softwareDesign #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareEngineering
