34 points by karmaniverous 4 days ago | 14 comments
mikehollinger 2 days ago
I've told it before, but when we were doing some clean sheet work a while ago I decided to use the C4 model and drew out the obligatory "Context" diagram with "user" "phone" "laptop" "app" sort of stuff.
I found them silly and (honestly) I still find that if I see one "in the wild" with no further elaboration I become suspect.
However two hours later, because of that silly context diagram, I realized that we had both an online and a semi-disconnected mobile app that could be offline for hours, and that certain things -had- to use a queue and expect an arbitrary amount of time for a task to run, and it completely changed how we thought about the core of how we implemented something pretty important.
Sold. :-)
anitil 1 day ago
karmaniverous 1 day ago
lenzai 1 day ago
The only tool for diagram as code with which achieved 100% DRY.
Very interesting tool by the inventor of C4
karmaniverous 1 day ago
kmerroll 2 days ago
bryanrasmussen 2 days ago
So R ecently.
I thought it was going to be about the R programming language and am still upset it wasn't.
gwern 2 days ago
(You're not missing much. 'A large serif letter from the body font' is about the most boring possible dropcap and not really worth the hassle, IMO.)
bryanrasmussen 1 day ago
karmaniverous 1 day ago