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What Would Albert Camus Think About Software Development?Philosophy
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Thoughts about Absurdism, essence, and software design.
GraphQL Schemas vs. RESTful DTOsGraphQL
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GraphQL schemas serve a similar purpose to RESTful DTOs. One of the main differences is tooling. In this post, I aim to strengthen...
Client-Side Architecture Basics [Guide]Client-Side Architecture
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Though the tools we use to build client-side web apps have changed substantially over the years, the fundamental principles behind...
Accidental and Essential ComplexitySoftware Professionalism
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Determining if the complexity of a problem is related to the nature of the problem or related to the way that we approach solving ...
How to Build a Compiler?Software Engineering
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A generalization of compiling code involves understanding the programming language grammar, parsing it, organizing it into a synta...
How I Write Testable Code | Khalil's Simple MethodologySoftware Design
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The single biggest thing that improved the quality of my designs was understanding how dependencies influence my ability to write ...
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