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Mechanisms too simple for humans to design - by Malmesbury

#brain #complexity #design #organism #systems | Does a bacterium fit on a floppy disk?

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Cognitive load

#architecture #code #cognition #complexity #reading | When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things. Let's say we have been asked to make some fixes to a completely unfamiliar project. We were told that a really smart developer had contributed to it. Lots of cool architectures, fancy libraries and trendy technologies were used. In other words, the author had created a high cognitive load for us.

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Tog's paradox

#complexity #law #product #usability #ux | <blockquote>Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s ComplexityParadox) is an observation that products aiming to simplify a task for users tend toinspire new, more complex tasks. It’s one of the key reasons for thesymptom of requirements changing after delivery in enterprise softwareproducts, and for feature creep in consumer products. Tog’s Paradox alsoexplains why it’s futile to try to completely nail down requirements for asoftware product, as the product itself will have...

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cohost! - "complex simple good bad code"

#complexity #programming #software

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The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted

#complexity #development #javascript #react #webdev | <blockquote>New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?</blockquote>

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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out

#code #complexity #development #documentation #management #productivity #programming | <blockquote>What does it mean when we say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out? Why is it important? And how else could we look at this problem?</blockquote>

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Buchanan's Four Orders of Design

#complexity #design #diagram #order #organisation #scale #systems #ui

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The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic

#code #complexity #programming #software | <blockquote>A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.</blockquote>

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Writing Disposable Code, Not Reusable Code | Björn Wilmsmann

#code #complexity #quality #refactoring #software

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Complexity Has to Live Somewhere

#architecture #complexity #development #engineering #programming

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Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits - Christina Wodtke - Medium

#architecture #complexity #craft #design_thinking #product | <blockquote>In How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking, I wrote about how I learned to value design thinking and in Five Habits of Design Thinking I explain how you can build the skill of…</blockquote> + https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1209162577793576960.html

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Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems – Christina Wodtke – Medium

#complexity #design #diagrams #systems #thinking #ux | <blockquote>In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and it may help…</blockquote>

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Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

#complexity #quality #software #technical_debt

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Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web

#complexity #cybernetics #logic #philosophy #reference #science #systems | <blockquote>Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.</blockquote>

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James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world? | TED Talk | TED.com

#complexity #systems #talk #ted #toread #world | <blockquote>James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system -- say, a swarm of birds -- is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. Glattfelder shares a groundbreaking study of how control flows through the global economy, and how concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number leaves us all vulnerable. (Filmed at TEDxZurich.)</blockquote>

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Chapter 16. Miscellaneous Questions

#analogy #bikeshed #bikeshedding #change #complexity #detail #development #forking #management #open_source #power_plant | §16.12 - Why should I care what colour the bikeshed is

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