What a Useful Specification Has to Do
A useful specification must compress intent, supply the right context for the current decision, and learn from code without becoming a copy of it.
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Writing
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The Code I Didn't Know How to Write
Twelve years ago a strict red-green-refactor ritual carried me to a solution I didn't know how to design. The trick wasn't thinking harder. It was thinking on schedule.
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Making Sense of Specification-Driven Development
To know whether specification-driven development works, I first had to ask what a specification is supposed to do.
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Why inkspell
What this notebook is for, and why the name sounds like a spell.
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