Kotlin Ktor Static Routing Not Working

OK - I'm an idiot. We know this. I'm developing a site (I'll write about it later... even though it might be up by the time this is published... DEAL WITH IT) and am using it as an opportunity to learn and use Kotlin!…

ToSystem - My Primitive Protection

I'd written up an almost complete post about my ToSystem abstraction... and it got deleted... About 4 months later, I'm re-writing it. Mostly because I have NO idea whast I wrote before. :) This ToSystem type had an evolution with my understanding of "objects" and…

AntiPattern: Factory Pattern

I'll start this piece with the place I will use the factory pattern, refactoring. It's a great way to decouple classes w/o having to rearchitect the inline-instantiated class. It's still a smell in the system. It still needs to go away, but it&…

30: Follow the lemmings with care

First - Lemmings don't do that [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness/]. OK.. Next... ... Yeah... I don't understand this principle. ... Sure. Don't just do what everyone else does, or what you're always done. I've seen some articles recently bashing long…

29: Align reputation with organization

I don't know what this means. ... At all. TO THE BOOK! ... "Don't take bugs personally"? Except it highlights (almost praise?) that (at the time) japanese culture around it takes it as a disgrace... which... is personal. So... ... This paragraph is muddy. And the principle…

28: Know formal methods

No? Formal well defined methods work in formal well defined spaces. We don't. Maybe "be aware of formal methods". Sure... Know of things. That's good. If a sitaution comes up and you think it relates, we can get more info. But getting in depth…

27: Stop when you achieve your goal

Outcome Focused. If the book's paragraph is anything but having an outcome focus... I'll just be ... not even disappointed. Yeah... I don't expect a lot from this book. I need a better one to do this with... I think I have a "N…

26: "Know-when" is as important as know-how

As I've been doing with these; I like to add comments before I read what the book says. If these are principles, the principle itself should give us some information... some insight. I'm also coming back to this after a month or ... something? OK... What do…