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The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is very good (and is available without a wait). It differs from some of the other PHEVs in that it is really an EV (with 2 electric motors) and uses t…

Related: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries Also related: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity

If you like these notes, you should read the (very good) book: https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-simplicity

That’s my point. FP can be as simple as that, and applied to any codebase. It’s all the extra stuff (which is good) that typically “defines” FP that scares people away, and keeps t…

Perfect is the enemy of good. I’ll take any percentage of pure functions that I can get.

It’s true that people don’t do it, because of language conventions, but there is no barrier to entry when it comes to writing functions (or methods in these languages) that operate…

I’m my opinion, how to win would be to push for more logic in stateless functions, full stop. This can be done in any language without introducing “foreign” FP patterns and instant…

https://medium.com/@knaan.harpaz/leverage-openais-language-m...

Agree, but it helps to remember that it’s a product of its time. Feels like we’re overdue for a similar piece poking fun at Node/JavaScript and all of its foibles.

I've always enjoyed this one: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

I always enjoyed this one: https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie...

Much higher level than a System Analyst. Enterprise Architects often work directly with the CIO/CTO to shape an organization’s long term technology strategy (i.e. 5+ year time hori…

Enterprise Architecture is a very different discipline from software development (and even solution architecture), and are usually found in non-tech organizations (i.e. banks, insu…

I've found this essay to be a good shortcut to Lisp "enlightenment" without having to put in the effort of actually learning/using Lisp: https://stopa.io/post/265

The term for this that I have come across is "stratified design" and goes back to the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman. I have no idea …

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It was a general comment about frameworks. It’s possible to have a framework that includes all the “batteries” but has idioms and conventions that promote simplicity and maintenanc…

I like that quote, but it's the Rails idioms and conventions that make hairballs, not the fact that it includes a bunch of batteries.

Sounds like “create-react-app”. A bunch of libraries and configurations wrapped up in a “golden-path”. Provides the “easy” for 95% of usecases and an “eject” button that unwraps ev…

Agree. There is a lot of value in the "easy, batteries included" solution which is why Rails gets so much love from the start-up community. The problem always seems to be that the …

Late to the party here, but what you propose is not being cheeky. Rich Hickey (Clojure creator) himself has a similar, interesting, and compelling take on time and mutability [0]. …