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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 5h

Our papers about pattern smells (inspired by code smells and re-imagined for patterns an pattern descriptions) workshopped at VikingPLoP and EuroPLoP are live on my website... See wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... and wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape...

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Rebecca’s Web – Pattern Smells, Get Rid of Them

Sometimes, we feel that something is wrong or odd about a pattern but find it hard to express what bothers us. Descriptions of pattern smells make it easier to identify typical shortcomings. Depending...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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Uglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I am generally not a fan of turning public infrastructure into advertising spaces, but I'm willing to make an exception for this ad on an Oslo bus for the world accordion championship.

Articulated buses are commonly nicknamed "accordion buses" because of the flexible, ribbed bellows connecting the two cabin sections.

The bus in the photo features a large graphic of a Roland accordion being played by a giant pair of hands. The two halves of the accordion are on either side of the flexible section, so that it looks like the bellows of the instrument. When the vehicle turns or maneuvers, the real bellows compress and stretch, making it look like the instrument is actively playing.

Above the windows is the text "VM på trekkspill, 16.-22. oktober i Asker Kulturhus" ("World accordion championship, 16th-22nd October in Asker cultural centre")

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A report that reflects on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop held at PLoP 2025 (Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Processes) conference wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... If you are interested in furthering the conversation (or getting involved) please reach out.

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Rebecca’s Web – Pattern Languages Will Save the World!

This report is a reflection on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop, an Imagination Run Wild session held at PLoP 2025.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Oh... I guess I was thinking it was a mispelling of einkorn... an ancient grain that I've tried several times when making bread

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Romeu Moura @malk-zameth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

my personal heuristic is "Have I asked @rebeccawb.bsky.social yet?"

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

yep... they share similar underlying value heuristics, but need to adjust to their current design context. It is good to see you make those connections. And good to find underlying values that drive our preferred actions... and see where we may differ in approach even if we share the same values

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Why do design patterns often fail to have an impact? How might we remedy that? The paper I wrote with Chris Kohls for the PLoP 2025 conference,"Patterns and their Umwelt: How to Make Patterns Come to Life" wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... offers advice for writing, maintaining&evolving patterns

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Rebecca’s Web – Patterns and their Umwelt

Patterns and pattern descriptions can fail because they insufficiently account for the umwelt—the situated perceptions, experiences, intentions, and values of authors, designers, users, and the contex...

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just posted: a pre-print version of the paper I wrote w Lise Hvatum for EuroPLoP 2025: What it Means to Be A Patterns Community: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... For those who build communities, I'd love to hear your thoughts &heuristics you've used to keep communities alive, thriving, &energized.

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Rebecca’s Web – What It Means to Be a Patterns Community

A reflection on the central values and characteristics of the Hillside Group patterns community.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

OK...I invite you to join this discussion, now you know when it is. (Time is notoriously hard to model BTW)

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 21/01/2026

NEW POST I had a conversation with Unmesh Joshi, and Rebecca Parsons where we talked about the feedback loop between the "what" and "how" in software development, and the role LLMs play in it. martinfowler.com/articles/con...

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Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop

How the feedback loop between “what” and “how” shapes programming structure — and how paradigms and LLMs fit into that loop.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It'll be me leading the discussion. I'm looking forward to it! Come, bring your favorite model and your questions.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I've been on an exceptionally lucky streak playing wordle. Today in 2! Wordle 1,672 2/6 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 91/99 And now, back to reality and working on taxes.....:-(

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

You can read the essay we will be debating here: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog... I hope you join us for a lively discussion.

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Rebecca’s Web – Critically Engaging With Models

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock On the Web

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/11/2025

Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas

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use case driven @tpierrain.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"I’ve seen things in bounded space" (suno.com/s/s126xbKu0s...) is the soundtrack of our "the DDD Horror Picture Show" talk with @paulinejamin.bsky.social Next and final performance at @newcrafts.bsky.social Paris next week. See you there.

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I’ve seen things in bounded space

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It was in France, after all that this accident happened

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Hear, hear!

A tweet from BrooklynDad_Defiant! says: “THIS.” followed by several clapping emojis. The image text reads: “Let’s give teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k student loan forgiveness. You know, the same as ICE gets.”

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The quote "All models are wrong but some are useful" should not be read as an excuse to stick with your model. It's a call to actively search for more useful models.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

What workshop are you planning on attending, Bess?

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Our annual patterns conference (PLoP) is Oct 12-15. We're opening up Sunday for 1/2 day workshops. $100 for workshop + dinner. Choices: Architecture & Application Modernization Patterns or Fearless Change Patterns and using them to create organizational change ti.to/hillside/plo... Join us!

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Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Alexander, if you are designing a model, you might draw a inspiration from how people mine patterns... understanding what it is abt an area you want to focus on, what are the problems you are trying to address, given the context. Then state both values and ID building blocks that "fit" together

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Glad you enjoyed it. We need more thinking together.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

So true. Lise Hvatum and I wrote a very personal perspective paper for this year's EuroPLoP on what it means to be a patterns community. I will post, soon. But we looked at community through Charles Vogl's work. If you are interested, happy to share

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/10/2025

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Or, rather biased perceptions ... and biases are, well, neither inherently good nor bad. But they can cause us to not focus on what we need to focus on or ignore things that shouldn't be ignored.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Sure, models are created by people.... I get that. But the point is, we tend to forget that they are just artefacts of our (faulty) perceptions

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I love this! All projects should have to provide documentary evidence of the remaining mess when the project is officially done. mastodon.social/@cmconseils/...

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Attached: 1 image Hard agree

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Yeah, I can't help think about zooming in and out and Gregor Hohpe's architecture elevator metaphor is another way to think about what architects should do... be able to move into/out of details and to explain what you think at different levels of detail

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2025

We're celebrating 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine on October 22 🎉 We want to hear from you: Why is the Wayback Machine important to YOU? Make a short video & share it with hashtag #Wayback1T 🤳 Let's celebrate a trillion memories together. INFO ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/23/

Frame grabs from videos of two people responding to the text at the top of the image, which reads: "Why is the Wayback Machine important to you? Share your story with us!"

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Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“Every model makes a choice about what is important, what categories we classify things in, what we see, what’s invisible, what’s valued, or even what’s valid.“ — @rebeccawb.bsky.social and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social from the paper we’re discussing on Monday, Oct 6 👇

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Steve Read @uniquereplica.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Domain-Driven Design London's next event is 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in London! @icooper.bsky.social will be presenting 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. Grab your tickets here: dddlondon.com/events/responsibility-driven-design/

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Responsibility-Driven Design Revisited | Domain-Driven Design London

Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) is the key technique for splitting our system into co-operating objects. How do we use it with other techniques to apply modern DDD?

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I hope you can join the Fearless Change Campfire free virtual event on Oct 3, 9 a.m. EDT. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising will host this event...with a lot of story telling and sharing of how people have made changes in their organizations. I'm going, just to hear others' wisdom!

A hint of a campfire in the left of an invititation to the 5th annual Fearless Change Campfire (virtual) on October 3, 2025 9 am Eastern Daylight time. White text on a black background. Registration for the free event at fearlesschangepatterns.com

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Reminds me when I asked you how long it took to generate the data and put it on a slide presentation you gave. You are the ultimate hand crafter! And I deeply admire that perfectionistic/artistic streak in you.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I got an unable to join message when I clicked on the link FWIW.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

... and in thinking better together

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I had the a similar problem with my latest glasses prescription, and they turned down the correction a notch (saying that this sometimes is a problem--being too corrected)... it wasn't blurry, but the edges were sparkly. They might not have gotten you exactly centered, either, FWIW

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This year marks the 32nd year of the PLoP conference held in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge at Skamania Lodge. Spark your creativity. Satisfy your itch to explore the potential of patterns. Submit a proposal for an Imagination Run Wild session. Feel free to ask me Qs See: plopcon.org/plop2025/

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Beth @bethcodes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I’m doing a thing! I don’t think the problem with Democrats is our policies, or that some of us are trans. It’s that too many Democrats are desperate to be liked by people they look down on. I don’t look down on baristas: I was one. I hope to be of service again.

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Or how to install the wire wring on your washer door (made by the manufacturer)... or how to plant orprune almost anything (although some people talk too much and take far too long)...

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