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A healthy software system is one that you can change at the speed you need, where people can contribute easily, without jumping through hoops. This is how you make a project that’s fun and worthwhile contributing to, and where you often find the most vibrant communities.
— Oct 08, 2026 07:07PM
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Maria Vargas
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Technology needs to be embedded in the business, not external to it or merely “aligned with it”.
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Infrastructure is messy work, almost the opposite of the pure functional programming she loves—in infrastructure, almost everything you do has a side-effect that mutates the state of something in the environment, making it difficult to isolate and test changes, as well as diagnose problems when things go wrong.
— Oct 11, 2026 08:12AM
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Software is like a city, constantly undergoing change, needing renovations and repair.
— Oct 09, 2026 06:27PM
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Creating software should be a collaborative and conversational endeavor—individuals need to interact with each other to create new knowledge and value for the customer.
— Oct 07, 2026 05:39PM
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Punishing failure and “shooting the messenger” only cause people to hide their mistakes, and eventually, all desire to innovate is completely extinguished.
— Oct 07, 2026 05:31PM