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Re: Emily Bache on Ward Cunningham’s Fearless Refactoring
When I was a younger developer, I thought I knew how to make code better by, as the kids would say today, following vibes. Much later, a coworker gave me a copy of Martin Fowler's Refactoring. I regret how long I put off reading it. Even later, I read Sandi Metz's 99 Bottles of OOP and learned just how safe refactoring could be. Fearless refactoring is a skill that must be learned, and it is almost a superpower! […]https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-emily-bache-on-ward-cunninghams-fearless-refactoring/
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In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them.
-- Ward Cunningham (The Pragmatic Programmer) -
In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them.
-- Ward Cunningham (The Pragmatic Programmer) -
@charlesincities @clive @GrantHenninger relating to #Citydon project, note also #Hometown, a supported fork of Mastodon offering local-only posting & other interesting different features. Led by @darius who is, like me, in #Portland.
[as is #WardCunningham inventor of the wiki, #LinusTorvalds founder & leader of #Linux; and from which came #DouglasEngelbart the father of #HumanComputerInteraction]. What is it about [this] City? 🤔🤝 -
@charlesincities @clive @GrantHenninger relating to #Citydon project, note also #Hometown, a supported fork of Mastodon offering local-only posting & other interesting different features. Led by @darius who is, like me, in #Portland.
[as is #WardCunningham inventor of the wiki, #LinusTorvalds founder & leader of #Linux; and from which came #DouglasEngelbart the father of #HumanComputerInteraction]. What is it about [this] City? 🤔🤝 -
#WardCunningham said:
> "I have consulted https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ in order to understand this request. I'm not there yet. Maybe you could elaborate in terms used in the overview, client and server, for example. I imagine this could be implemented as a wiki server-side plugin similar to what we have done with RSS. Since the plugin would be receiving content it would help me to understand how you would expect identity to be handled."Totally above my paygrade. Help?