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In a vaguely related vein, here’s a D&D-style developer alignment quiz: https://www.sallery.co.uk/lessons/quiz

If you’re that keen on business books, I have one that you might enjoy: https://www.sallery.co.uk/lessons . I’ve tried to avoid some of the pitfalls listed in the article, but feed…

I think that technically, as a blog post, this wouldn't be eligible for Show HN?

The lamp-holders and braided flex are from https://www.lampspares.co.uk/ , and the bulbs themselves are from Heal's ( https://www.heals.com/lighting/bulbs-and-fittings.html ).

Thanks, that's helpful - I am indeed the OP, and the "overcomplicated" part was intended as tongue-in-cheek self-criticism!

That's probably down to the angle; the table is in fact over 3 metres long, and extendable.

Yes, it is a bit clicky. As discussed in the post, this is something I'd like to fix.

Overcomplicated lighting design

If the page author is reading this: hello Rob!

On leaving my previous employer after seven years as CTO, it struck me that there are plenty of books on business written from the perspective of great success, and quite a few on …

I’m somewhat surprised that the article doesn’t mention Robert Winter’s “The Interactive Beethoven”. I kept an old ThinkPad running for a long time after it should have been obsole…

Thanks for the info; I had my suspicions...

Some interesting arguments are made, though the evasions are probably more telling.

I went on an architectural tour of the Barbican Centre a few years ago - it was great, highly recommended (particularly if you're a fan of Brutalism, an under-appreciated style). A…

Diagrams are good for representing structure, and inherently less good at representing behaviour (as mentioned in the article). I recall that in the early 2000s some UML tool vende…

There's a place for UML in the README.md; as some other commenters have pointed out, UML works much better as a sketching tool than as a total definition of a software system. A co…

If it doesn't take off, where would you sell it?