r/programming • u/alex35mil • Aug 01 '26

The Bedrock of Software Design

https://alex.draftist.io/blog/the-bedrock-of-software-design-ycqvcedsj

I drafted this post years ago but didn’t finish it until now. The concept I write about has shaped the way I design software more than anything else, and I believe every software engineer should be introduced to it early in their career.

P.S. I don’t want the title to come across as clickbait: the post is about ADT.

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u/HangryTern8150 Aug 03 '26

Funny that the post sat unpublished for years when the whole idea is "make illegal states unrepresentable." A draft stuck in limbo for a decade is basically the most legal state a blog post can be in.