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Essays from November 2025

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  1. When “Don’t Repeat Yourself” Makes Code Worse – Learning Elixir And Re-learning Recursion

    Thanks to a conversation with Erik Schön, I was learning Elixir while waiting for my plane back from DevLin 2025. I decided to go through the Roman numeral kata to slowly get into Elixir. When the algorithm was coming together I hit this interesting moment where I saw a lot of repetition, and asked Claude …

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The #NoEstimates book and its companion volumes

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What if better planning started with a different question?

The first chapter of #NoEstimates argues that the “deliver on time” challenge is answered by a different question. Read it, and see whether it changes how you plan the next piece of work.

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