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Reflections on Ambition, Attainment and Fulfilment
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Reflections on Ambition, Attainment and Fulfilment

Henry David Thoreau famously said; “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”and at the risk of accidentally and inadvertently “outing” myself as a middle-aged man, not merely a middle-aged man but also a Cis, White, Middle-Class, Man living in one

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Maleghast Jul 28, 2021 • 9 min read
Estimates, Time and Toxicity
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Estimates, Time and Toxicity

or... How to build software reliably without “Crunch” I have been building software professionally for twenty years, and the one utterly constant truth I have discovered is this; Making Time a key factor in the lives of Coders, and specifically in the process of estimating and planning work, is a

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Maleghast Oct 28, 2020 • 11 min read
Credit Where Credit is Due
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Credit Where Credit is Due

(Image: Barbara Liskov in 2010 | see credit below) I am suitably (I think) proud of my professional life, in so much as though I am not the best programmer (I know I have worked with and will continue to work with people far more talented than I), and yet I

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Maleghast May 18, 2020 • 7 min read
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Why I Love Clojure...

I have been a software engineer, professionally, for about fifteen years. Like a lot of people who write code as a part or pretty much all of their job I did not come to Software from a predictable angle; my degree is a BA in English and American Literature, but

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Maleghast Jan 26, 2016 • 8 min read
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