Finishing my BSc at UEA. The final-year dissertation is on agile and lean methodologies for deploying software in operational start-up contexts: what actually works, what doesn't, and where the conventional wisdom breaks down.
The four-part Engineering Philosophy series in the archive is complete, running from Cargo Cult Software Engineering through The Teacher and the Doer, The Pragmatist's Razor, and ending with Alive to Guess Again. Thinking through what the next series should be. Probably something on the gap between engineering decisions and product decisions.
Reading The Pragmatic Engineer, Designing Data-Intensive Applications (again), and back through Bret Victor's older essays.
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