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Var Zero's ramblings: a philosophical approach to tech.

Episodios

  1. 31 ago

    The CMS trap

    Abstractions make software easier to work with, until maintaining the abstraction becomes more work than solving the problem it was meant to simplify.

  2. 25 ago

    Beyond recall and the illusion of competence

    The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.

  3. 9 ago

    Mindful coding: Purpose and intention

    Good code doesn't only describe what it does. It communicates why it exists. A look at how intent shapes names, abstractions, comments, and commit messages.

  4. 2 ago

    Retries don't fix eventual consistency

    Retries are great for transient failures, but they can't solve eventual consistency. Treating one problem as the other often adds unnecessary complexity to distributed systems.

  5. 26 jul

    What even are microservices?

    Everyone recognizes a microservice but nobody can define one. That's because microservices don't solve a technical problem, they solve an organizational one.

  6. 19 jul

    Perfection is not over-engineering

    The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.

  7. 12 jul

    GraphQL: The leakiest of abstractions

    Every abstraction leaks. GraphQL is the only one I know that leaks in both directions: out to the frontend and back into the backend.

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