“Glue” is a word that flags engineering topics full of lots of deep foxy knowledge and detail that’s not been systematized in any textbook because it doesn’t lends itself to low-level hedgehog axiomatization. There’s almost never “3 laws of glue” like there’s Newton’s laws.
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I would totally read a book called “glue engineering” that covers everything from physical adhesives through cable latch works to software wrappers to sigmoid functions. There’s glue at every level from atoms to bits.
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I’ve sort of formulated there being four resources in every software engineering project.
Storage
Compute
Bandwidth
Glue
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Yes, I also like 's phrase "blub studies":
"Blub studies is a never-ending treadmill of engineering know-how. It’s the fiddly technical details... mundane, ultra-specific-seeming knowledge"
benkuhn.net/blub/
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I’ve sort of formulated there being four resources in every software engineering project.
Storage
Compute
Bandwidth
Glue
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Glue is like the most tiring thing imaginable.
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“Glue” is a word that flags engineering topics full of lots of deep foxy knowledge and detail that’s not been systematized in any textbook because it doesn’t lends itself to low-level hedgehog axiomatization. There’s almost never “3 laws of glue” like there’s Newton’s laws.
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