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Brad Appleton
Personal blog · bradapp.blogspot.comprogrammingproductivity
Brad Appleton's personal blog at bradapp.blogspot.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “JEDI Programming - Just Enough Design Initially”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on software design practice. One comment cites a post on whether to design a whole app before coding, arguing that big design upfront fails and that agile slogans limit over-design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Agile CM / ALM Environments
Most-linked posts?
- JEDI Programming - Just Enough Design Initially2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Should you design your entire app before you start coding? You can, but that doesn't work very well. Part of the whole agile and test-driven development movement is a rejection of that "waterfall" / "Big Design Upfront" approach after seeing how it fails in the real world. Slogans like "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" and "You aren't going to need it" are there to stop you doing too much design. Shou…
Comment linking /2009/07/jedi-programming-just-enough-design.html
on “Design first, then code.”Submitted Simple ain't Easy: Myths and Misunderstandings about Simplicity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JEDI Programming - Just Enough Design Initially as a story · 1 points
HN discussion