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Last week I wrote a short anecdote about getting big, upfront design wrong. The next chapter is on quick and dirty fixes. You know, those hacks we do to “make something work”. These often come about after frenetic debugging session, where we debug a system into existence. Smacking a piece of drywall on top of the existing drywall is a ...

Last November my family and I move into a brand new apartment. Since we’ve moved in, we’ve had builders coming in to fix things over and over again. Today they started to “refactor” the wiring in our kitchen. Maybe I should get this picture framed as a reminder of not to trust Big Design Upfront (which is the way they build ...