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I’ve been worried about what I’ve come to call Cognitive Complexity for a while.  In short, cognitive complexity is why some problems are h...

Imagine you’re renting a house.   The tenant doesn’t keep very good care of the lawn because he can’t afford to fix his lawn mower.   Now t...

I have a previous post about static and dynamic types [1] and I think I still agree with everything my past self said.  However, I think th...

After observing things in the software engineering world for about eight years now, I’m vaguely concerned that people approach problems in ...

My initial goal as of late was to be able to identify all problems that are hard for people to devise solutions for.  You may think, “Har...

Finished reading The Garbage Collection Handbook[1].  I’m glad that I read through it, but I’m pretty sure that my takeaway is something ot...

Someone mentioned to me recently that they were interested in having a way to indicate space constraints into a type system such that you c...