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Two is Too Many

December 21, 2015

There is a key rule that I personally operate by when I’m doing incremental development and design, which I call “two is

by Max Kanat-Alexander

January 16, 2013

In the world of software, it is the job of software developers to solve the problems of users. Users present a problem,

by Max Kanat-Alexander

August 22, 2012

In June, I released a second revision of Code Simplicity. Some of you probably already know, but I thought that I should

by Max Kanat-Alexander

November 17, 2011

Here are some clues that tell you that your code may be too complex:

by Max Kanat-Alexander

May 14, 2009

In a user interface, similar things should look the same. But different things should look different. Why do over 75% of Facebook’s

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November 15, 2022

It's always important to understand your users and the problems they actually have.

In developer tools, it's easy to assume you already know the problems, because you're a developer. But often, it's surprising to discover what developers' actual pain points and requirements are.

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November 15, 2022

How does LinkedIn approach developer productivity?

In this week's issue, @mkanat shared his learnings from spending ~20 years in this field, and how LinkedIn approaches this area.

Subscribers can read the full issue here: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/linkedin-engineering-efficiency

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November 6, 2022

Monolith ➡️ Microservices is trading off code complexity for operational complexity. Usually that’s a good trade-off, but you have to recognize you’re making it and build or buy the operational tools you will now need.

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October 14, 2022

@jasonbahl I recommend Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software by @mkanat.

Because certain developers might have 10 years of experience, but it's really 10 x 1 year. This book fixes that.

So if there's one book to read for WordPress developers, it's this one.

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October 2, 2022

No amount of intelligence will let you solve a problem for which you have insufficient data.

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Code Simplicity

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Two is Too Many

Users Have Problems, Developers Have Solutions

Code Simplicity, Second Revision

Clues to Complexity

“Consistency” Does Not Mean “Uniformity”