Hiya!
I'm Andrew. A father, husband and software engineer living in Scotland.
I've been building software since Turbo Pascal on an Amstrad - an old language no one remembers on an old computer no one used.
During the day, I work at TransferGo as a Staff Engineer. I've built Compliance, Risk and Anti-money Laundering things. Now I focus primarily on the Identity and Profile domains.
I'm teaching software development concepts using metaphors on YouTube and writing interactive and animated articles.
My spare time is spent with family, kayaking, 3D printing, and coaching youth football.
- Cognitive Debt
- Pipe Operator
- Primitive Obsession
- Composition over Inheritance
- Accidental Intent Cancelling
- Profiles #4: Hidden Coupling
- Profiles #3: Event Inconsistencies
- Profiles #2: Implementing Branch by Abstraction
- Profiles #1: The Profiles Bounded Context RFC
Neologisms
Fowler coins new words to describe things he sees in software. I do the same. I don't expect any to catch on. I do it to help me think.
Semantic Diffusion
Semantic Diffusion describes how terms lose their meaning as they spread. I discovered it a while ago. I think Event Sourcing, CQRS, and DDD are topics that suffer from this exact problem.
42 Days Across the Labrador Wilderness
Kevin Wild filmed his 42-day, 650km solo canoe expedition across the Labrador wilderness. The result is an 8-hour documentary covering everything from polar bear territory to paddling alongside whales. Unmissable!