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JEG2

@jeg2.me

Longtime developer, sometimes manager, author, conference speaker, open source contributor, forever educator and learner, husband, and swim dad. It’s unclear what he loves more: regular expressions or board games.

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JEG2@jeg2.me · 12mo ago

I'm closing out, for now, my series on questions at the heart of development with an analysis of when we need more abstraction. For example, taking @germsvel.com's advice about architecting more accurate models can reduce future bugs. programmersstone.blog/posts/why-is... #ElixirLang

Why is this hard?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. In a previous article of this series I talked about how we must remain ever vigilant against what is making it into our code. I talked about the ne...

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JEG2@jeg2.me · 12mo ago

In this third article of my questions series, I'm coming for your dependencies! I do my best to add a fifth cost to @martinfowler.com's costs of YAGNI. You can also find out what my favorite programming book is. programmersstone.blog/posts/what-w... #TechDebt #YAGNI #dependencies

What will it cost to carry and remove this dependency?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. I've built a lot of applications with a lot of teams. I've seen a lot of the problems with software development. There are two problems that I've s...

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JEG2@jeg2.me · 12mo ago

In my second post of key questions for developers, we dig through the insights from multiple @ferd.ca posts to determine how products evolve and the environments that facilitate that process. programmersstone.blog/posts/what-a... #ProductDevelopment #PsychologicalSafety

What are we afraid of?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. One of the lessons I learned during my time in management is that it was far more important for me to worry about creating environments where good ...

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JEG2@jeg2.me · 12mo ago

I'm publishing a new series of articles on my blog this week. It's my attempt to condense and share what I've learned in over 20 years of #ElixirLang / #Phoenix / #LiveView and #Ruby / #Rails development. I hope you find it helpful. programmersstone.blog/posts/jeg2s-...

JEG2's Questions

My System by Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the early chess books that had a big impact on me. The first part of the book, called The Elements, is where Nimzowitsch lays out the specific criteria he is m...

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JEG2@jeg2.me · 12mo ago

I'm reading a classic programming paper tonight. Can you name it from the following quote? "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."

johanna 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈@jola.dev · last yr.

Most engineers hate estimates because they've been weaponized by bad managers. But when teams treat estimates as conversations instead of contracts, they actually ship more consistently. Not because they predict better, but because they communicate better. jola.dev/posts/estima...

jola.dev - Estimates Are More Valuable Than You Think

Johanna Larsson is a software engineer, manager, writer, speaker. With over 14 years of experience in software development and management, she has worked with clients from various industries, includin...

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