Twitter at the speed of parenting
I’ve seen people give talks about systems I have knowledge of. What they present might most kindly be called “aspirational.”https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1136807617014247424 …
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The absolute _best case_ scenario for software systems is that they’re like an old house with a big family living in it - clean & functional enough in the main spaces everyone uses, but lots of marginal spaces, hard to keep clean, where odds & ends accumulate.
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When you have guests over, of course you just show them the main living areas! Nobody wants a tour of the unfinished basement, or the deep narrow closets you can’t keep tidy, or the bathroom tacked on where plumbing was most convenient & and the fewest walls had to be opened.
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But you should know that real software has all of those spaces and more. And that’s the best case! Some systems don’t even have livable common areas. Some are hoarded houses of horror with a modern facade outside.
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The other day, I described one of my early projects as Howl's Moving Castle - a hodgepodge of tacked-together sundries held together by magic. How I long to tear-down and rebuild that house, maybe even turn it into a tiny home.
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I really love this metaphor. It's one of those ones that you keep finding new ways of applying and it still works really well.
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