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Software Design: Tidy First?

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Mathematicians, Here’s a Way To Think About Your Existential Crisis (opens the original)

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    Two years ago programmers were all like, “What I do is code. Who I am is a coder. The genie codes. Now who am I?” Now mathematicians are all like, “What I do is prove theorems. Who I am is a theorem prover. The genie codes. Now who am I?” Here’s a framework I’ve found helpful for answer that question for myself.Features & FuturesSomething similar to the structure of the two fields, programming & math, is that there is a (relatively) visible part—features in the case of programming & proofs in th

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