Kevlin Henney

Post by @wordfriday 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 0 · mathwashing, noun · Conveying a false sense of objectivity and neutrality through the use of mathematical terminology, statistics, data, algorithms, etc. The word was coined in 20…

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Not to be confused with mental-flossing or truth-pasting…

Post by @wordfriday 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 0 · mathwashing, noun · Conveying a false sense of objectivity and neutrality through the use of mathematical terminology, statistics, data, algorithms, etc. The word was coined in 20…

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WordFriday: mathwashing

Conveying a false sense of objectivity and neutrality through the use of mathematical terminology, statistics, data, algorithms, etc.

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I use "McNamara Fallacy", but mathwashing conveys the point, better, without readers needing to go look up what the McNamara fallacy is.

(Plus the McNamara fallacy is technically more about being misled into measuring what's easy to measure, rather than "numbers give the illusion of competence".)

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WordFriday: mathwashing

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Much Ado About Nothing at Umbraco Spark

Join me on 20th March in Bristol where I'll be giving a short talk on nothing.

Representing the absence of something in code or data takes more than zero effort.

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Much Ado About Nothing at Umbraco Spark

Join me on 20th March in Bristol where I'll be giving a short talk on nothing.

Representing the absence of something in code or data takes more than zero effort.

www.tickettailor.com/events/umbuk...

Program with GUTs | NDC London 2026 One of the greatest shifts in modern programming practices has been how programmers across many different domains, languages and environments have embraced unit testing. Good unit testing, however, is...

Join me next Tuesday at @ndcconferences.com NDC London for Program with GUTs.

This full-day session looks at good unit tests (GUTs), what they are and how to write them, whether code you are testing comes from the past, from a prompt or direct from your fingertips.

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It's the same game, just different dice.

Program with GUTs | NDC London 2026 One of the greatest shifts in modern programming practices has been how programmers across many different domains, languages and environments have embraced unit testing. Good unit testing, however, is...

Join me next Tuesday at @ndcconferences.com NDC London for Program with GUTs.

This full-day session looks at good unit tests (GUTs), what they are and how to write them, whether code you are testing comes from the past, from a prompt or direct from your fingertips.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science | NDC London 2026 Most software developers don't have qualifications or a background in computer science or software engineering. Given the diversity of both software development and developers — and how far enthusiasm...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science | NDC London 2026 Most software developers don't have qualifications or a background in computer science or software engineering. Given the diversity of both software development and developers — and how far enthusiasm...

Join me next Monday at @ndcconferences.com NDC London for The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science.

This full-day session is suitable for anyone in software development who touches code, whether as an introduction, a refresher or to fill in the gaps.

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A @kevlin.bsky.social at a metro ticket machine in Chongqing, China

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Could also be mistaken for anglocentrism

I have not come across a specific word for this, which falls under the category of linguistic bias, as it is normally communicated via phrasing, e.g., "linguistic bias towards English", but I like anglophonocentrism.

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WordFriday: deliquescence

The process of fully dissolving into a solution by absorption of moisture from the air.

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Esorterica Aggregator page for essays on esoteric sorting algorithms and related side quests

Here is the link for all of the related articles on esoteric sorting algorithms, including permutation sort and bogosort: kevlinhenney.medium.com/esorterica-3...

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Muito obrigado! 🙏

I would love to! I just need someone to invite me 🙄

Where you can find me in March (sessionize.com/kevlin):

Agile Meets Architecture (Berlin)
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Future Tech (Utrecht)
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Umbraco Spark (Bristol)
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