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Shai Yallin
  • Apr 5
  • 7 min

The Anatomy Of A Rotten Codebase

Code rots. Just like everything else in life. It's one of those analogies I keep coming back to. But rotten code isn't just a problem...

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Shai Yallin
  • Dec 10, 2021
  • 2 min

The woes of a Mac migration

Update, January 2022: Shortly after publishing this post the Mac failed to connect to the display. Through a friend who works at Apple I...

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Shai Yallin
  • Nov 23, 2021
  • 6 min

Your Software as a Kitchen

A while ago I was consulting with a startup where both co-founders were non-technical. They brought me in something like 6 months after...

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Shai Yallin
  • Jun 9, 2021
  • 3 min

Tzvika's Revenge's Revenge

In 1996, aged 16, I wrote a PC game called "Tzvika's Revenge", along with another friend who did the art. We stole the audio clips from...

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Shai Yallin
  • Apr 22, 2021
  • 3 min

Litany Against Fear of Change

Written 56 years ago, the Litany Against Fear plays an important part in the novel Dune, allowing the protagonist to overcome his...

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Shai Yallin
  • Feb 1, 2021
  • 6 min

Permanent Prototypes

When we start a new project - be it a newly formed startup, or a new project inside an existing company, we have to move fast, prove...

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Shai Yallin
  • Jan 27, 2021
  • 2 min

On Remote Pair-Programming

For the past few months I've been working with a startup building a mobile app using #ReactNative. I last used #React back in 2016, and...

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Shai Yallin
  • Dec 16, 2020
  • 3 min

It's all about the maintenance, dummy

I recently overheard two software engineers discussing a feature they were developing. They had two options: developing the feature...

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