Tag: pensata
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Good Music Ages Well
Listening to good music when you are young, in adolescence for example, is one thing. You barely have a hobby and certainly don’t work. You haven’t had the chance yet to experience the “pull” of a working profession. The motivation that makes you observe things, copy or improve them. It’s a mix of feeling and…
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Writing Sentences
I like Charles Bukowski. I like his books and writing style. He writes mostly using short sentences. I try to imitate that style here in this website. I just try, because it’s hard. Ideally speaking, sentences should only break one line before it stops. Breaking two lines is like taking two street corners around the…
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MVP, Technical Debt and Rebuids
I no longer believe in the idea of building a half-baked MVP in order to launch it faster. The cost of rebuilding is disturbing to me. Rebuilds often happen with the main product live in production, which of course generate ongoing support and run of the mill operations. Chances are that the rebuild and operations…
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MVC
The MVC is a design pattern. Yes, it is. At the most fundamental level, in my experience, is like the artist positioning the canvas at a certain distance, holding the palette and the brushes. Having all those elements at hand ready to be used with consistency across the entire work process. From this point onward,…
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We are Conformant to Deficit and Flaws
I suspect we are because it was key to our survival in the unknown. Since the dawn of mankind we are struggling with the natural environment. We feel humbled by the infinite force of rain floods and erupted volcanoes. We feel passionate and calmed by the fragile innocence of our children. They break things in…
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AI: Speed || Complexity
I’m writing this in the early stages of AI. This morning, I read a post on X.com from a man who wanted to put his entire codebase under review using AI. Until recently, people wanted AI to do things they considered “doable,” but faster. — “Oh, I can do this, but it would take time.…
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The Framework is your Learning Framework
The creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf (video below), has an interesting take on development frameworks. “They all suck”, as he says. I had mixed feelings the first time I watched this video. In fact, I felt kind of frustrated. At the time, I was learning CodeIgniter and believed it would be easier to stick to…
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Blogs are Dead. This is an Autobiography.
I’m so glad to know that one of my reasons to keep writing online coincides with one of Derek Sivers‘: to make original content that I wrote accessible to public AIs, so maybe one day it will be able to make something that resembles me some way, some how… Quote from Derek’s “now” page on…
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Success comes from simplifying validated products
People want products with less features. People want simpler features.