Dragan Stepanović
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Dragan Stepanović
@dstepanovic.bsky.social
Trying hard not to think about small batches, bottlenecks, and systems. In the meantime: XP, ToC, Lean, Systems Thinking.

Moved here from that other place for good.
The meaning of pragmatism as a term has been hijacked to mean subjectively justified hacking and piling up a mountain of cruft.
A "just dump it under the rug while no one is looking" development.
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
**Proceeds to add the 25th dependency in a class and a corresponding stub in 50 tests, while breaking a bunch of other tightly-coupled-to-implementation tests that suddenly fail for a wrong reason**
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Vulnerability to be seen as a human (that makes mistakes).
A precondition for building trust among people and safety.
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We want our old DDD Nick back!
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Often, when we reach the step that when discussing a bigger change we initially wouldn't have agreed on, once we got there in smaller steps, it's often not a point of contingency anymore because we realize our assumptions were wrong or that we didn't really understand each other.
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"No one is going to take you serious if your book is less than 350 pages long"
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Let me think about it.
Hmmmm...yeah, people will vomit more (even worse) code.
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
That's to say, teams that struggle with refactoring skills are also teams that most likely struggle with design skills, because tapping into a rich pool of domain and design insights generated as you refactor in small, safe steps is out of their reach.

2/2
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I wanna join!
October 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
But then I won't have the chance to practice my skills for reverse engineering understanding from the implicit code!
September 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM