iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

When we get on to modular software design, I talk about "complexity by composition" - simple parts composed into complex and sophisticated wholes, and it's the interactions between those simple parts that produce the magic. A symphony of FizzBuzzes.

000

Complexity by composition.

As you can probably imagine, I'm not a fan of minimalism in music. Having said that, this is one of my favourite pieces of music in the history of ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA19...

The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)

YouTube video by Edo de Waart - Topic

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 23h

They built those $multi-billion supercomputers out in the desert - with city-scale power supplies - to host models that apparently can copy themselves to your phone.

163

My brother recently switched me on to Unpeople. Debut album out now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJp...

unpeople - the garden (official music video)

YouTube video by SharpTone Records

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reposted by Jason Gorman

In the 15 years since I published my Dependable Dependencies Principle to help teams take a more informed approach to risk-based testing and refactoring, I've done a bunch more thunking about it. I finally got around to writing it down. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/10/13/r...

codemanship.wordpress.com

Revisiting the Dependable Dependencies Principle

Twelvety-three years ago I published my Dependable Dependencies Principle for modular software design. Over the years, I’ve expanded on it, but never written that intervening thinking down. S…

182

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I know how excited software folks can get about anything with the word "dependable" in it.

000

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

codemanship.wordpress.com

Revisiting the Dependable Dependencies Principle

Twelvety-three years ago I published my Dependable Dependencies Principle for modular software design. Over the years, I’ve expanded on it, but never written that intervening thinking down. S…

182

Reposted by Jason Gorman

apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 12/10/2026

Nothing has a moat anymore but somehow still none of the software does what I want. Interesting

1129827

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For scale, that's about 4 seconds of my time.

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"A feature that cost $2500 to deliver now just costs 25c". How short was the meeting to discuss that feature? You *did* discuss it, right?

282

Reposted by Jason Gorman

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

676260335525

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you're watching a man who has no scientific discoveries to his name and has published no research to speak of receive a medal for his contribution to science, and you're thinking it's not because he bankrolled the election campaign of the man handing it to him...

050

Can we predict a file changing at different times for different reasons just by analysing the file, its dependencies, and what uses it?

100

That's dynamic analysis - analysis of things changing or the software running.

100

Drummer Louis Cole is playing the keyboard bass part with his left hand at the same time www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ecu...

YouTube video by Clown Core - Topic

Two

130

That's not static analysis, though. What can deduce from the code itself without having to wait for a change history?

100

What, I wonder, did it achieve?

000

Question for the folks who haven't surrendered all their thinking to Uber-Clippy: with static analysis, how might you identify Divergent Change?

Really enjoying the debut album from Unpeople, We Are Unpeople. Brother pointed me at it. Ordered. I think it's out today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAv...

YouTube video by unpeople - Topic

swallow

It's fascinating watching much of the media take at face value claims of future abundance for all made by the kind of people who famously don't let their employees take bathroom breaks.

050

Sure. If you're gonna push bad code, at least make sure nobody's read it.

050

"Humans write bad code, too!" exclaim AI boosters who don't perhaps understand that's not an argument in favour of AI-generated code.

191

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Coming soon - model reviews & model refactorings

000

Reposted by Jason Gorman

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

12074171894

Additions to my Responsibility-Driven Design workbench: * Optional role types (e.g. if a type plays more than one role) * Collaborator multiplicity (by default, 1) * Loops in sequence diagrams * More idiomatic UML diagrams Give it a spin: codemanship.co.uk/rdd

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026

Reposted by Jason Gorman

Nigel Farage is a sitting MP and the leader of a political party. Why does he have his own GB News show? Sign our petition to Ofcom ⬇️ bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…

29700352

LinkedIn helpfully suggests "Someone at Meta you may know". If I know anybody who's still working at Meta, that's a failure on my part.

060

Shortcomings: - No concept of type. Roles = types. That's fixable, but needs some thought. - Not scalable: no unit of organisation (e.g. packages) - When feedback from coding changes the model, no simple reverse trip

000

A few more UX tweaks to my RDD Workbench after yesterday's workshop: - More straightforward responsibility assignment - Better logic about who the default sender should be on a sequence diagram, based on who has focus of control - Easier way to add return messages codemanship.co.uk/rdd/

"and vaguely alluding to other things I'm going to do that you didn't ask for"

"The thing you need to know is in there somewhere"

450

I especially like Claude's "Here are 1000 words about the very small change I'm proposing" feature.

6160

It depends when you catch them. If they think the boss or a potential employer (or a potential customer) is listening in, their motives tend to skew.

000

Fact is, teams who put a little thought into those high-level contracts tend to end up with more modular designs. It's like building a clay model around a wire frame that holds the basic overall shape.

061

That's the original purpose of mock objects - we go contract-first, defining how a module will be used before considering how it will work. On real-world systems, we typically end up with a small ratio of abstractions and mocks to concrete implementations - just the key high-level interactions

142

...As the software grows, those interfaces often end up hiding a cluster of classes or modules that emerge from refactoring that aren't mocked and don't have their own dedicated tests. e.g. The Card interface might end up hiding a can of worms about payments. But design starts with its *contract*.

121