Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Friday reading...another patterns paper I co-authored with Karl Evard and presented at PLoP25: on flow-focused testing strategies: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape...

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

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

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.

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

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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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...

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

I've been on an exceptionally lucky streak playing wordle. Today in 2! Wordle 1,672 2/6

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And now, back to reality and working on taxes.....:-(

You can read the essay we will be debating here: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog...

I hope you join us for a lively discussion.

I've done this puzzle. It is fun

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

I’ve seen things in bounded space Listen and make your own on Suno.

"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.

It was in France, after all that this accident happened

Gagnut

Spittles!

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.”

Hear, hear!

The cat won the argument.

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.

Opinion | Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...

What workshop are you planning on attending, Bess?

Great!

PLoP 2025 Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices

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!

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

Glad you enjoyed it. We need more thinking together.

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

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

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.

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

Laura Manach :bongoCat: (@cmconseils@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Hard agree

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

mastodon.social/@cmconseils/...