Design from zero to achieve simplicity; don’t endeavour to reduce the complex.
I use this heuristic in software engineering for both code and project level tasks. I apply it to all tasks; whether they should take a couple of hours or several months to complete.
Systems have realities: design, …
I made a tool to visualise the file structure of git repositories: Longitude. The inspiration comes from work where I wanted to overlay team ownership across files and directories in some of the large monolithic code bases.
It’s very much an MVP and is a nights-and-weekends project. …
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive – don’t mourn them uselessly.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
say goodbye to her, the …
The main concept discussed in A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram is the complexity that results from very simple Cellular Automata. I looked at that in an earlier post Cellular Automata with F#. Chapter four of A New Kind of Science looks at systems based on numbers:
The underlying rules for …
…