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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

rebeccawb@discuss.systems

<p>SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design &amp; xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns author, heuristic hunter, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener.</p>

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    This NY Times article by a poetry professor is thoughtful... and I suspect that CS profs need to wrestle with the same issues... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opinion/ai-chatgpt-school.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.G9EK.3p_VSeTC8VFO&amp;amp;smid=url-share

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    Here&amp;#39;s a link to the pre-publication version of the paper I wrote with Chris Kohls for the 32nd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices (PLoP)PLoP 2025 conference, titled &amp;quot;Patterns and their Umwelt: How to Make Patterns Come to Life&amp;quot; https://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/papers/patternsumwelt/ Why is it that design patterns, with all their potential, often land with a thud? Design patterns promise reusable solutions to recurring problems, yet many...

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    @allenwb I&amp;#39;m glad I don&amp;#39;t live in this rat race anymore. But the people I was meeting with about exploreDDD yesterday all were... and they jumped in and offered that they had several agents going at the moment, and when we discussed what to hack on on the hack day, they jumped in to Claude code (while I was just doing a google search and reading web pages).... and they generally seemed excited by all that they were doing. So I get this. And I am so out that loop... So do read t...

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    For your Friday reading pleasure... another patterns paper presented at PLoP 2025, I co-authored with Karl Evard. Flow Focused Testing Strategies: Working Towards a Pattern Language Alternative to the Test Pyramid https://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/papers/flowfocusedtesting/ What started out as a critical look at test suite pattern shapes evolved into an initial foray into patterns and considerations for testing critical execution flows. I would be interested in hearing your latest system testi...

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    My lucky wordle day... because why not? I am in Hawaii on vacation so this word came to mind... Wordle 1,709 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 76/99 Luck 42/99

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    Cable TV... invented in Astoria. https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2026/02/the-surprising-oregon-town-where-cable-television-was-born-four-years-before-portland-got-tv.html?gift=5c3d5d06-11f7-40f8-a3c3-96ff9147d575

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    Lucky wordle Monday Wordle 1,717 2/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 91/99

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    Another good wordle day... Wordle 1,718 3/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 89/99 Luck 71/99

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    Once again... I&amp;#39;m hitting my stride in wordleWordle 1,720 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 85/99 Luck 52/99

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    Oh, Portland! https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2026/03/readers-respond-renaming-cesar-chavez-boulevard.html?gift=be559d39-3859-4d44-bc57-88423d048da0

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    Fact checking legal briefs conjured up by a legal assistent using AI???? Hmm... a Salem OR lawyer never thought that was needed https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/03/oregon-attorney-slapped-with-record-fine-after-citing-case-law-hallucinated-by-ai.html?gift=eea13de1-c2b5-4dfa-9343-0eff56a67a7b

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    And on another note.... ensh*tification video made by the Norwegian consumer council https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

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    A bit of whimsy for today.... the gradient horse art project (draw a horse and set it in motion) https://gradient.horse/

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    good grief... the newest version of zoom has made it difficult to even FIND how to start a meeting.........