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Archive for June 4th, 2025

Kevlin Henney on encapsulating and restricting Mutability of State to improve software quality

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04

Important read (5 minutes or so): [Wayback/Archive] Restrict Mutability of State. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change… | by Kevlin Henney | Feb, 2025 | Medium

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Kevlin Henney on X: “Blogged: Restrict Mutability of State “What appears at first to be a trivial observation turns out to be a subtly important one: a great many software defects arise from the (incorrect) modification of state.” “

--jeroen

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b0rk on Twitter about getting unstuck: “debugging strategy: do the annoying thing”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04

Not just about getting unstuck during debugging: making progress is often about doing “the annoying thing”.

[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “debugging strategy: do the annoying thing”:

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