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, then rebuilt the Profiles domain. Now I've joined the Developer Experience team, helping engineers get better at working with AI.
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.
- Your Codebase is Your Prompt
- Evaluating our Test Pyramid
- 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
Is Attention a Budget or a Curve?
Attention budget and attention curve describe different parts of the same problem. Budget is about how much attention there is. Curve is about how it gets distributed across the context.
The Open-Closed Principle perfectly explains the replicator from Star Trek
Adding a latte shouldn't require opening the replicator. That's the Open-Closed Principle, and the holodeck safety protocols going offline is what happens when a design ignores it.
My video titles are honest, and that's a problem...
My video titles are usually just the name of the pattern. I won't do clickbait, so I'm experimenting: put the boring, accurate name on the thumbnail and use the title field as a hook.