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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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May 20, 2022

(day 3/100) #100DaysOfCode moving from a #react Js developer to a #MERN stack developer.

No coding Today
I spent my time reading this great resource, it worth reading,
Check it out👇
#softwaredevelopment #SoftwareDeveloper
https://www.codesimplicity.com/book/
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May 17, 2022

I'm happy to announce that my book, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software, is now completely free: https://www.codesimplicity.com/book/

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May 17, 2022

After a thread on how difficult it is to acquire books in some countries, I started a conversation with @OReillyMedia about how we could make my book more available.

Thanks to some great work by O'Reilly, my first book is now completely free: https://www.codesimplicity.com/book/

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April 11, 2022

The work you do has an effect on the world. Even if it’s a small effect, it’s still affecting some part of the world in some way. You are in fact constantly changing the world.

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March 25, 2022

You can’t solve problems that don’t exist. When somebody tells me a solution is “unknowable,” they are always talking about some abstract thing, never the real problem that actually exists in the physical universe. You have to solve the problem that actually exists.

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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”