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Next Monday, 24.11.2025, I will be holding my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 20-Year Journey" at the JUG Bremen/Oldenburg Meetup (in person & in German). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚💭🤓.
All further details can be found at:
https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/11/14/in-person-talk-on-24-11-2025-at-jug-bremen-oldenburg/
Hope to see you there! 🖖
AlexPS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/blog/2025/01/24/naechste-thoughts-vortragstermine-in-2025
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„The twenty-first century marks the first time in human history that our society has become dependent, for its survival, on a technology that has acquired virtually no semblance of discipline or control. Software has invaded every facet of modern life from connecting us in a world-spanning network to dividing us socially and politically. There is literally no aspect of life in the modern world that is not dominated by software. And…“ 1/
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„Every five years, the number of programmers in the world doubles. The implications of that fact are staggering. If the number of programmers in the world doubles every five years, it means that half the programmers in the world have less than five years’ experience, and this will always be true so long as that doubling rate continues. This leaves the programming industry in the precarious position of perpetual inexperience.“
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""Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self." - Damian Conway“
(Programming Wisdom - https://x.com/CodeWisdom/status/1352652260581515266)
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"If you think you know about trees, look at this.“
(Danijel Višević - https://x.com/visevic/status/1474104715168387080)
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"“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.” — Burt Rutan“
(Programming Wisdom - https://x.com/CodeWisdom/status/1486422946633691141)
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"I find the term business logic a curious term because there are few things that are less logical than business logic." (Martin Fowler)
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"Spent time this week validating it was safe to delete a bunch of reporting code that (1) worked, (2) was correct, (3) I spent a lot of time creating, and (4) I was personally proud of. Nobody was really using them.
Why delete them? Because code is a liability and not an asset.“
(Justin Searls - https://x.com/searls/status/1516806149940686856)
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"Cleverness of code is proportional to the confusion it creates.“
(@venkats - https://x.com/venkat_s/status/1518006880844632066)
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"“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it” ~ B. Kernighan & P. J. Plauger“
(Nicolás Malaprosa - https://x.com/malaprosa/status/1526391687827685376)
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"Dear people writing code: Never create a class/file/package with “utilities” in its name. You are opening an escape hatch for people trying to avoid thinking about where things should go. It will inevitably grow to become a sprawling, misshapen, widely-hated monster.“
(@timbray - https://x.com/timbray/status/1551606580851879936)
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"OH: "We expect to have the Critical User Journeys done in January, and then we'll start the prototype sprint just as soon as we finish the design sprint..."
"Waterfall", the word you're searching for is "waterfall“.“
(@kentbeck - https://x.com/KentBeck/status/1552649647528677376)
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"An estimate is a lie to serve the delusion that software development is deterministic.“
(@BruceEckel - https://x.com/BruceEckel/status/1558496410034749441)
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"When employees don’t feel safe, it’s not just unpopular opinions they keep to themselves;
They conceal ideas for innovation too.
If leaders can’t create a safe climate, so many opportunities are missed that fly completely under the radar.“
(Jeff Tetz - https://x.com/JeffTetz/status/1559213367159652353)
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„There has never been more complexity and choice available to developers than there is today, but there have also have never been more options to abstract it away. It just comes down to how much complexity you and your organization can stomach in the pursuit of your goals.“ 1/
#OnModernDev #AlexThuTalk #AlexThuClassics
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2270714/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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"Trust can only be given, not requested.“
(Joseph Pelrine at Craft Conf 2021)
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„Politics is how we make decisions in groups when we don’t agree on the goals. If we do agree on the goals then it's just a question how we’re going to meet them - we’re doing project management. But what do you do in a society, or a company, or an open source project or anything else where we don’t agree on where we’re supposed to go? […] That’s what politics studies. And I don’t think it’s a dirty word.“
@gvwilson in:
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INNOQ Technology Lunch: @feststelltaste „Das tapfere Schneiderlein: Sieben Schnitte auf einen Streich“
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INNOQ Technology Lunch: "Digitale Souveränität: Buzzword oder Business-Critical?"
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„Simplify - and in simplifying your own code to solving your own local problems, you are also building institutional knowledge about how to simplify. Which sounds really basic, but I would claim we don’t really even have that [knowledge] anymore.“
Jonathan Blow in his talk „Preventing the collapse of civilization“ 🤔 -> 👏
https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=MleNlQVg8y8yag-Q
#OnModernDev #AlexThuWatching #AlexThuClassics
#AlexThuDisruption -
"Have you learned about SOLID principles X years ago, but now struggle to remember what each letter stands for? @tastapod came up with CUPID - an alternative that could be easier to remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knNaUSLhx-U“
(Andriy Svyryd - https://x.com/andriysvyryd/status/1444384855114977281)
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"if the consequences were not so disastrous, it would be a bit comforting that not only IT is dominated by a continuous demand for the next fashion. it appears we are so conditioned by 50+ years of ad-driven immediate gratification promises we lost our ability to focus longer-term“
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"Conway's Nightmare: If you constantly change the org chart, i.e. running everything as projects, then your code base will be a big ball of mud.
https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1504125343782817800“
(Alf Kåre Lefdal - https://x.com/aklefdal/status/1505903857708277763)
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"nothing to add ... highly recommended talk
I was thinking about this talk by @allspaw from a few years ago earlier, went back and re-watched it. It's had a significant impact on how I've approached work over the years since.
Highly recommended, especially if you've never seen it.
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I would very much like to add:
If you want to start to build a habit today (AKA: „the stuff we humans run on most of the time“) - more specifically a habit of broadening your perspective once a week - make sure to watch @gvwilson‘s talk today… works perfectly fine as a combined kick- & headstarter:
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Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj9eD0Wug8
Nice: „Mark invited Yuval to talk. Then Mark tried to find approval for facebook. Mark didn’t find approval. Mark sad. Don’t be like Mark, be like Yuval."
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Susan Goldsworthy: "Confronting and Navigating Inner Polarities in Leadership“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reR9HQusTtw&t=4571s
„If I had to characterise the emotional tone of what I have been doing for quite a number of years, I would say that I was in the business of anxiety - that I'm creating more anxiety around Al, climate change, whatever. Now we need to switch to a different project, which is to rebuild trust, because when there is too much anxiety and you can't trust…“ 1/