https://blog.notbad.software/post/ Recent content in Posts on A notbad Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:54:41 +1000 https://blog.notbad.software/post/classes_of_error/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:54:41 +1000 https://blog.notbad.software/post/classes_of_error/ As a software engineer I get really excited when a language feature or pattern allows me to eliminate whole classes of error. A concrete example is that Go’s strict type system means I never need to worry about checking whether the argument to my function is actually undefined. The fact that Elm’s variables are all immutable means I never ever need to wonder whether something has been changed unexpectedly. These features usually take some work on my part in order to use them but it’s very rarely a bad investment of time. https://blog.notbad.software/post/eye_to_sky/ Tue, 21 May 2019 09:03:17 +1000 https://blog.notbad.software/post/eye_to_sky/ The software industry is awesome but sometimes I get frustrated by it. It feels like all our best engineers are tied up building programs-for-programmers-to-program-programs-for-programmers. There’s a whole real world out there and it’s really interesting! I rebuilt a warehouse management system for a steel distributor recently. One of the columns in the orders table in the legacy database was “Eye to Sky”. I had to know more! When I asked the internal stakeholder what it was about he told me that most customers don’t have the same kind of heavy lifting equipment on site that the distributor does in the warehouse.