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Ken Scambler

Software architecture hot tips:
- Good things are better than bad things, except when they're not
- Also nothing is good or bad
- It depends
- The answer to every question is "it depends", except for when it doesn't. It depends
- Name three things you like. You can't have them at the same time
- No.
- There are many definitions of software architecture, but none of them are correct
- There's no such thing as software architecture

27 May at 12:48 | Open on hachyderm.io
13 comments
Victor S Sigmoid

@kenbot - Make sure to ask users what they want.
- Users don't know what they want

27 May at 13:22 | Open on hachyderm.io
nonspecialist

@kenbot
- any decision you make now will be wrong
- you have to make a decision now, or things will be worse

27 May at 22:26 | Open on aus.social
Daniel Hall

@nonspecialist @kenbot
- This decision will be better than the last one
- Next time you'll do better

27 May at 22:45 | Open on aus.social
nonspecialist

@smarthall @kenbot
- if you don’t make a decision, it will be made for you and you’ll have to live with the consequences

27 May at 22:46 | Open on aus.social
Jonathan Yu

@nonspecialist @smarthall @kenbot If you do make a decision, you'll still have to live with the consequences. Even if your predecessor made the decisions, you'll live with the consequences

14 June at 0:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Chuck

@nonspecialist @kenbot

Every decision you make succeeds in teaching you something. Do not fear making a "wrong" decision, embrace the excitement of learning definitively what the right decision is!

14 June at 2:12 | Open on chaos.social
Irenerd
Casey

@kenbot ah yes, metamodern architecture

29 May at 8:30 | Open on aus.social
Stephen Collins
jnfrd Jan

@kenbot I agree. Mostly.

bad things are always bad. Good are sometimes bad.

14 June at 4:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️

@kenbot I make a point of never telling clients ”it depends”. It’s like handing over the responsibility of a hard decision to someone that doesn’t have a clue.
I usually outline the problem, the alternatives and hand them my recommendation. Then they go ahead doing the opposite because they have a gut feeling, but at least I’ve done my part. 😉

14 June at 5:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Ken Scambler

@mikaellundin With you 100% there. It's always true, and therefore carries no weight on its own

14 June at 5:38 | Open on hachyderm.io
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