Today in the Wall Street Journal is an article entitled “Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs”. The reason cited in the article is that people are afraid to dance for fear of being captured on social media and going viral in some meme for how “stupid” they look. When I read… Continue reading “Dance to the Music”
Is Open Source Socialist?
This blog post is inspired by a tweet I saw recently that directly expresses a sentiment that I’ve only seen implied in other forums. I figured I would take the time to craft a direct response. How is Socialism defined? Many political theorists have answered this question, but I think the following citation from Upton… Continue reading Is Open Source Socialist?
Direct Your Attention
It was a regular weekday afternoon, as regular as weekday afternoons can be in the era of “The Covid”. I was working from home and found myself with a little time in between tasks. Without even really thinking about it, my fingers typed “facebook.com” into my browser’s address bar and I started to scroll. Over… Continue reading Direct Your Attention
Idealist Business Logic
While scrolling through my Twitter feed the other day, I came across this tweet which got me thinking: It's true that for the majority of my career, I've heard that my primary focus should be the business logic. After all, that's where the value is delivered for my employer or client. It makes sense, and… Continue reading Idealist Business Logic
DDDecomposing the Monolith
This past September I had the opportunity to speak at the ExploreDDD conference in beautiful Denver, Colorado. If you've not attended the conference and have an interest in using Domain Driven Design (DDD) for architecting modern software systems, I highly recommend you check it out. The organizers do a fantastic job of attracting good speakers… Continue reading DDDecomposing the Monolith