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Notes

Loose, unpolished notes from my personal knowledge base. Mostly experimental, published early and revised over time.

Tags: mentorship performance principles software-engineering

  1. Essential Complexity

    provisional

    Brooks's distinction between essential and accidental complexity in software systems

    software-engineering principles

  2. Phronema

    provisional

    Phronema as engineering judgment: mentorship vs dead rules

    software-engineering principles mentorship

  3. Premature Optimization

    provisional

    Knuth's full quote on premature optimization and how the slogan gets misused

    software-engineering principles performance

  4. YAGNI

    provisional

    YAGNI as engineering principle and when it becomes a thought-terminating cliché

    software-engineering principles