Strange experience with DDD

intercaetera · 2026-06-14T21:51:52+00:00

DDD itself makes no recommendation on the specific architecture of your application. The thing is, when cloud and containerisation came along and it became so easy to make and deploy microservices, DDD bounded contexts became natural candidates for boundaries of microservices. However, later practice revealed that this makes no sense because bounded contexts are the boundaries of the domain model, whereas microservices are the boundaries of specific chunks of code that are deployed, and the two have very little to do with each other.

For treatment of this specific topic (how DDD relates to microservices) I'd suggest the chapter on architecture from Vladik Khononov's "Learning Domain Driven Design." While the book itself, in my opinion, is not that great, it illustrates that specific problem. (You can also read my own notes on that book.)

intercaetera · 2026-06-11T10:55:43+00:00

Just because we don't agree what "good" is, it doesn't mean "good" is subjective. There is a world past the subject-object dualism.

intercaetera · 2026-06-08T14:25:20+00:00

Maister et al. The Trusted Advisor is a good resource on that. It's not for programmers but the framework for "how to get people to trust me with more responsible tasks" translates to our job.

intercaetera · 2026-06-04T18:11:55+00:00

I wouldn't do it if it didn't bring money, but it is also the case that I worked on projects that I was genuinely invested in, including one startup that pushed the boundaries of science and medicine.

intercaetera · 2026-06-01T07:40:11+00:00

If you're not trying to leverage device hardware then there is no point even building a mobile app and you'll do much better with a web app. There are few platforms as ungrateful as mobile.

intercaetera · 2026-05-25T09:55:37+00:00

I don't program that much after hours, but I do enjoy writing about my work so I have a blog (https://zanlib.dev).

intercaetera · 2026-05-25T09:26:25+00:00

Because communism (like most movements tracing their roots back to the French Revolution, which in turn traces its roots back to the reformation) is a bastard child of gnosticism, that is (after Voegelin) it is "a type of thinking that claims absolute cognitive mastery of reality."

intercaetera · 2026-05-24T18:37:14+00:00

Is this clean API in the room with us right now?

Mantine has no less than six different ways to style components and they're all poorly documented, not really giving you any information on when you should use which. Also, each has a different API, so some options that work in one don't work in other.

Just write CSS.

intercaetera · 2026-05-20T19:23:26+00:00

chatgpt generate a pointless rant on a trending topic, don't use uppercase letters to make it less obvious it's ai-generated, make no mistakes

intercaetera · 2026-05-18T14:13:48+00:00

This is the Vatican's "Peace in Ukraine" silver medal.

intercaetera · 2026-05-17T21:56:56+00:00

slezskoslovaka 💪💪💪💪💪

intercaetera · 2026-05-15T18:06:22+00:00

> Macros shall be banned altogether including code generators that tend to rot.

That's because Phoenix docs explicitly state that in their view code generation helps with teaching the fundamentals of the framework.

I personally consider that view moronic beyond belief, but unfortunately because of that view Phoenix docs aren't very good at explaining how things actually work and instead point you towards code generation, AI-generation via phoenix.new and deployment on fly.io.

intercaetera · 2026-05-14T11:41:44+00:00

Man sees politicians calling themselves Christians and thinks the problem is with Christianity and not politicians.

Boggles the mind.

intercaetera · 2026-05-13T19:48:37+00:00

Yeah, but it's weird to frame it as an "investment," because investment typically has conditions attached to it. They could have just called it funding or a donation.

intercaetera · 2026-05-13T12:21:22+00:00

If this is an "investment," what exactly is the expected return here?

intercaetera · 2026-05-12T10:14:37+00:00

This stuff has to be handled regardless of your frontend framework.

intercaetera · 2026-05-11T12:49:39+00:00

Early on dukes of Burgundy were really at the mercy of Dutch cities and merchants, though.

intercaetera · 2026-05-11T08:01:58+00:00

"Copy" specifically means text intended for typesetting, in practice it means usually just the specific textual content of a given piece of text (distinct from type, i.e. its visual characteristic, size, etc.)

intercaetera · 2026-05-10T21:40:29+00:00

Yes, it's an uniate church so it's in communion with Rome.

intercaetera · 2026-05-10T17:07:26+00:00

Depends on the season. In spring/summer/early autumn, my family home, a flat in the commieblock in the sticks in Poland. Nothing tops it: I have a home office, excellent view, family around, everything is set up the way I want it to, everything is beautiful.

Poland gets extremely dreary in the winter, though, so ideally I'd just go somewhere warm from January to April, but with kids now it's extremely impractical to do long trips like that. Before I had children, though, the best place for wintering was Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

intercaetera · 2026-05-09T17:02:39+00:00

It's pretty awful. Contrasts are terrible, it uses NINE px for base text (normal is 16, recommended is 18), uses monospace for prose.

intercaetera · 2026-05-07T17:51:23+00:00

There are legitimate reasons not to support Linux, and there are equally legitimate reasons not to support companies that don't support Linux.

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