• Dr. Ingrid Falk-Weller
• January 22, 2026
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• Software Engineering

A Good Name Removes the Need for a Comment

I remember sitting in a windowless basement lab during my PhD, staring at a distributed consensus implementation that was technically “correct” but practically unreadable. The code worked, yet I spent three hours tracing a single variable through six different modules…

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• Dr. Ingrid Falk-Weller
• January 12, 2026
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• Software Engineering

You Write Code Once and Read It Fifty Times

I spent three months in academia chasing a specific distributed consensus proof, only to realize during the implementation phase that the entire codebase was a labyrinth of “clever” optimizations that no one—including my future self—could actually parse. We have this…

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