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Eugen Minciu

@eh-ooh-gen.com

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Cats. Coffee. Computing. Doing my best to think small. eh-ooh-gen.com

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathoda.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Substrates vision statement alarmingdevelopment.org?p=1842

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Eugen Minciu @eh-ooh-gen.com · 06/05/2025

This is such a good insight (and not just for big tech companies) www.seangoedecke.com/wicked-featu...

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Wicked features

Why is working at large tech companies so hard? It’s because a small subset of “wicked features” dominate everything else. If you’re building a todo app, adding…

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Eugen Minciu @eh-ooh-gen.com · 16/04/2025

One of the Smalltalk ideas I wish we had more of is the programming language as iterative moves towards a *non-programming* goal www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655...

A quote from "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" by Dan Ingalls:

"Our work has followed a two- to four-year cycle that can be seen to parallel the scientific method:

- Build an application program within the current system (make an observation)
- Based on that experience, redesign the language (formulate a theory)
- Build a new system based on the new design (make a prediction that can be tested)"

A quote from "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" by Dan Ingalls.

"The purpose of the Smalltalk project is to provide computer support for the creative spirit in everyone."

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Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · 10/03/2025

Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years. If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏 If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!

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Eugen Minciu @eh-ooh-gen.com · 15/02/2025

Finally managed to set up my website. To kick things off, here's a two thousand word whopper on SemVer, how it normalizes change and how we might do things differently: eh-ooh-gen.com/essays/001-t...

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SemVer normalizes constant change, placing a toll on individuals and small teams. This essay offers a more sustainable alternative.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 16/01/2025

Local-First Conf is back! Tickets are now officially on sale: localfirstconf.com Join us on May 27th - 28th for two days of insights, learning, fun, and chat. We hope to see you there

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