by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes research leads old guys to remember lessons from way back. Crisis helps us forget to our peril The other day at work, we were speaking with a thought leader in an area of technology. This person truly is an expert and a thought leader in the future of his area. The […]
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Research or Reminders
May 14th, 2020 · No Comments
Tags: Adapting · Learning · Software · Technical Debt
Software “Pipelines”: Another Bad Idea
April 30th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I don’t like the metaphor of the software “pipeline,” never have. Here is one explanation why. I recently wrote of my distaste for the metaphor of the software stack. Now I express a similar distaste for the software pipeline. Perhaps this goes back to the Unix pipe—shown with the “|” vertical bar. […]
Tags: Communication · Software · Vocabulary
Software “Stacks”: A Bad Idea
March 19th, 2020 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I don’t like the metaphor of the software “stack,” never have. Here is one explanation why. I wrote some software on a recent Saturday afternoon. I used Google’s Colaboratory, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, String libraries, Regular Expressions, HTML, and a few other things. I think folks call that a “software stack” these days. […]
Tags: Concepts · Software · Technology