David A Notes

Con el tiempo, esos Mapas Desmesurados no satisficieron y los Colegios de Cartógrafos levantaron un Mapa del Imperio, que tenía el tamaño del Imperio y coincidía puntualmente con él.

I’ve recently(-ish) been doing some self-study using textbooks, and I’m briefly capturing some reflections on the process here.

Building software is a team sport, but who’s on your team?

Engineering: solving problems under constraints Many engineering problems have the general form of trying to achieve some desired capabilities at minimum cost, or alternatively trying to design the best performing system within a certain price point.

What do you do with a problem like software?

Encoder: experimenting with posting summaries or highlights of my (often quite) rough notes on books or papers I’ve read.

Disclaimer: Not advice, consult a professional!

Disclaimer: Not advice, consult a professional!

“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”

Introduction Software product development can be thought of as spending scarce time, effort, and attention in order to (hopefully) deliver customer value.