Tag: software-development

All the articles with the tag "software-development".

• Email as a user interface

  Published: 1 Feb, 2025 |  at  12:04 PM

  Email is one of the internet's foundational user interfaces. Almost everyone on the internet who might use a service can be assumed to have one. As an interface for user interaction however, email is often overlooked.

• App Not Required

  Published: 23 Jan, 2025 |  at  12:04 PM

  Many developers assume incorrectly that the best solution to a user's problem is another app. This fails to account for the second and third order costs that users pay for an app. The true cost also includes the price paid in our finite daily attention, willpower, and time.

• Building better software

  Published: 21 Dec, 2024 |  at  12:04 PM

  This post has come about from several weeks of reflection on tech debt. Code quality, typically considered to be a measure of how well a project has managed complexity, is also a reflection of the decision making skills of the developers writing the code.