So I have something I call the “Pragmatic Overlay”. Its the concept that you can have an idealized vision or plan for whatever you are wanting to do. But, and this usually only comes based on experience, you have to have an element of pragmatism to it. Some simple examples are “I want to go […]
I have previously discussed the concept of “reuse”, from an engineering perspective. Something I actually learned really early in my career is that there’s a subtlety to the implementation of this concept. It all begins the first time you learn about functions, or objects, or libraries. There’s this idea that code can be written once […]
The interesting thing about not-invented-here syndrome (NIH), is that it surfaces itself in a financial way. Projects end up taking a lot longer than they needed to because some developer or team decided to try and build some solution themselves instead of utilizing reuse. Digging into this, my experience says it is either one of […]
In the past I’ve talked about emergent requirements. You know those…those are the ones where you’re chugging along, building your system, you’re pretty far along, and then you have a meeting with the customer or product owner and they say something and you realize, “Wait a moment, they think the system should do X!” And […]
I am lucky enough to own my own home, but that also means I am responsible for all of the maintenance and repairs. I am ABSOLUTELY by no means an expert on home repair, but I have learned a couple things that I can do on my own, to save a few bucks (and get […]
Machine Learning AI blows my mind. So I have a formal education in classical engineering. What that means is I solve problems in heuristic, formula-based ways derived from foundational principles. Let’s say someone is throwing a ball and you want to know how far it is going to go. The way I would solve that […]
At this point I’ve been working with AWS technology almost exclusively for nine years. So that makes me a bit of an expert at it. Yet I’m still amazed at how fundamental principles surface themselves within this “newfangled” technology. Let’s discuss. I am re-reading an old favorite of mine, The Mythical Man-Month, by Fred Brooks. […]
For those of you that know me, I have a swimming pool, but the pump has been broken since about March (so basically I’ve been cleaning it manually the entire summer). I have had a multitude of people out to troubleshoot and try various things to fix it, to no avail. Several pool technicians have […]
Looking back at last week’s blog post, I realized that I’m not done talking about Good Intentions. If you can’t tell, I’m not a fan of administrative controls. If you have business rules, you can’t just tell people to follow them and expect it to happen. There will always be a moment where someone is […]
Looking back through my blog posts, you’ll see that I talk a lot about good developers being less about the ability to write super-awesome-amazing code and more about the attention to detail and quality. https://nuggets-knowledge.com/2021/04/25/dont-let-the-little-things-accumulate/ https://nuggets-knowledge.com/2021/02/20/building-the-habits-that-lead-to-quality/ https://nuggets-knowledge.com/2020/08/08/motivation-vs-discipline-or-i-only-want-to-do-the-fun-stuff/ The thing about this is, I figured this was more or less the known industry standard. I assumed […]
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