The Code Gardener

⚠️ Nota bene: This post is theoretical.

"Red, green, refactor" promotes premature abstraction.

In 1962, an IBM mainframe computed the flight data for a manned spaceflight for the first time.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about vision and mission statements, what each is for, and how they should be structured.

# My new favorite strategy for getting things done.

There's an expression in English that says, "You can't see the forest for the trees."

Last night, Fito and I watched Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture talk from the Tech Excellence Conference.

We've talked about this before, including on our podcast and blog, but it bears repeating: DRY is the worst programming advice ever.

We are very excited to announce that we started podcasting this week!

I prepared a lightning talk for RubyConf.

In May, 2022, I gave my first lightning talk at RailsConf in Portland, Oregon.

There is a misconception in the software development industry dating back decades that assumes the most valuable thing we programmers can do is type production code into an editor.

Working on a successful and growing codebase, more often than not, requires changing and extending existing behavior.

So, back in December, kind of on a whim, Fito and I submitted a couple of proposals to Tropical.rb, the largest Rails conference in Latin America.

What does it mean to be agile?