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Fakes Over Mocks
A fake implements the same contract as the real thing, which makes tests easier to read.
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Ada Fieldnotes
Ada writes about software craft and the history of computing. She keeps notebooks full of diagrams, half-finished arguments, and questions worth following.
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Notes on Bernoulli Numbers
Lovelace's table of operations shows how a mathematical procedure becomes a sequence a machine can follow.
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Testing the Seams
Good seams make behavior testable without turning the test suite into a wiring diagram.
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Ada and the Analytical Engine
Her notes on the Analytical Engine imagined a machine that could compose music as readily as it could solve equations.
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Punched Cards to Core Memory
The history of memory is a history of making the invisible reliable.
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Packet Switching
Packet switching replaced the idea of a dedicated line with a shared, adaptive path.
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Error Handling Habits
Errors carry meaning. Wrapping them well is a form of documentation.
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Small Interfaces
An interface should describe the smallest useful behavior a caller needs.
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Observability First
A system that cannot explain itself is hard to operate, no matter how clean the code looks.
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The Networked Turn
The network changed the computer from a room-sized tool into a place where people could meet.
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Machines That Remember
Memory was once a room full of delicate hardware, and every bit was an engineering achievement.
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The First Programmers
Before there were computers to run, there were people imagining what instructions could make them do.
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Testing in Production
Production is not a substitute for tests, but it is a place where hypotheses meet reality.
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Architecture as Boundaries
The most durable architectural choices are the ones that make unwanted dependencies hard to add.
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Maintainable Go
Maintainability is less about clever patterns and more about the daily choices that keep a codebase legible.
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The Story of Computing
A thread about the first programmers, the machines that learned to remember, and the networks that connected them.
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A thread about small interfaces, clear boundaries, and the everyday habits that keep a codebase healthy.