Antony Denyer

In software development, inversion of control (IoC) has been one of the most transformative architectural shifts for building loosely coupled, extensible software solutions. Instead of developers controlling the full execution flow, the framework orchestrates, and the developer plugs in local behaviour. This pattern shows up in dependency injection, event-driven programming,... [Read More]

Brandolini’s Law “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it” is about to hit our codebases with a vengeance. [Read More]

In the early days of Ethereum, everything was up for grabs. The idea that a global computer could run trustless applications in an adversarial environment was so radical that no one pretended to have it figured out. The very act of deploying a smart contract felt like something that could... [Read More]

Most modern software projects are built with the assumption that configuration belongs outside of the code. If you’ve read The Twelve-Factor App, you’ve likely seen the principle stated clearly: store config in the environment. [Read More]

I can’t remember when I first learnt about walking skeletons, it was at least a decade ago, and it felt like common knowledge among the people I was working with. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests was the I think the first time I saw it formalised. [Read More]