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An attempt at applying ideas from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to programming
One of the books Peter Naur cites in his Programming as Theory Building essay is Thomas S. Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. This book seems to be regarded as an important entry under the topic of history of science, but what does this have to do with…
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Is modern consumer technology less interesting
Recently I saw a post on Hacker News: I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore . The author, Andreas, talks about how he’s just not excited about new technology the way he used to be when he was younger. He poses the question of whether getting older just…
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Writing code is a feedback loop
It seems traditionally programming is seen as an activity where you make the computer do what you want. You have some requirements for the program, and then you write code to make it do the thing. It’s a linear “one way” process which you repeat until the program works. But I…
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Using stable and evolutionary problems to guide decomposition
One of the questions that I’ve wondered about is how do you choose how to decompose a program into smaller pieces? It always felt like this is largely something you do intuitively, based on experience. But I recently read an excellent article on Meir Lehman’s Laws of Software…
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Two things I've learned from game development
I’ve worked my entire career in web development. I’ve done backend work in PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, etc., and frontend browser coding in JavaScript and TypeScript. Working in just once niche like this gives you certain ideas and impressions, and it’s easy to assume…
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In defense of understanding the theory of the program
This post is a critique on some Programming as Theory Building related points in Sean Goedecke’s post In defense of not understanding your codebase . I was sent a link to it by Valeri Karpov , who wanted to hear my thoughts on it. Goedecke’s post was an interesting and thought…