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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
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SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns enthusiast, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener, amateur baker

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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock @rebeccawb.bsky.social · Dec 6
In wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog... , I introduce my latest topical collection: 23 patterns on agile quality--patterns for infusing system quality&quality-assurance practices into agile teams. Instead of searching for obscure conference proceedings, they are now easily accessible. Feedback welcome!
Rebecca’s Web – Agile Quality Patterns
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock On the Web
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tpierrain.bsky.social
"I’ve seen things in bounded space" (suno.com/s/s126xbKu0s...) is the soundtrack of our "the DDD Horror Picture Show" talk with @paulinejamin.bsky.social

Next and final performance at @newcrafts.bsky.social Paris next week. See you there.
I’ve seen things in bounded space
Listen and make your own on Suno.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Hear, hear!
A tweet from BrooklynDad_Defiant! says: “THIS.” followed by several clapping emojis. The image text reads: “Let’s give teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k student loan forgiveness. You know, the same as ICE gets.”
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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mathiasverraes.bsky.social
The quote "All models are wrong but some are useful" should not be read as an excuse to stick with your model. It's a call to actively search for more useful models.
October 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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conways-law.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...
Opinion | Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This.
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rebeccawb.bsky.social
Our annual patterns conference (PLoP) is Oct 12-15. We're opening up Sunday for 1/2 day workshops. $100 for workshop + dinner. Choices:
Architecture & Application Modernization Patterns
or
Fearless Change Patterns and using them to create organizational change
ti.to/hillside/plo...

Join us!
PLoP 2025
Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices
ti.to
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I love this! All projects should have to provide documentary evidence of the remaining mess when the project is officially done.

mastodon.social/@cmconseils/...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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We're celebrating 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine on October 22 🎉

We want to hear from you: Why is the Wayback Machine important to YOU? Make a short video & share it with hashtag #Wayback1T 🤳

Let's celebrate a trillion memories together.

INFO ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/23/
Frame grabs from videos of two people responding to the text at the top of the image, which reads: "Why is the Wayback Machine important to you? Share your story with us!"
September 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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ruthmalan.bsky.social
“Every model makes a choice about what is important, what categories we classify things in, what we see, what’s invisible, what’s valued, or even what’s valid.“
— @rebeccawb.bsky.social and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social

from the paper we’re discussing on Monday, Oct 6 👇
ruthmalan.bsky.social Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · Sep 13
Next in the #PapersInSystems Discussion Series:

Critically Engaging with Models, by @rebeccawb.bsky.social
and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social

When: October 6th, 2025, 1–2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada)

Paper: wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog...

More info/Sign-up: ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Rebecca’s Web – Critically Engaging With Models
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock On the Web
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September 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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uniquereplica.bsky.social
Domain-Driven Design London's next event is 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in London! @icooper.bsky.social will be presenting 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. Grab your tickets here: dddlondon.com/events/responsibility-driven-design/
Responsibility-Driven Design Revisited | Domain-Driven Design London
Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) is the key technique for splitting our system into co-operating objects. How do we use it with other techniques to apply modern DDD?
dddlondon.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
rebeccawb.bsky.social
I hope you can join the Fearless Change Campfire free virtual event on Oct 3, 9 a.m. EDT. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising will host this event...with a lot of story telling and sharing of how people have made changes in their organizations. I'm going, just to hear others' wisdom!
A hint of a campfire in the left of an invititation to the 5th annual Fearless Change Campfire (virtual) on October 3, 2025 9 am Eastern Daylight time. White text on a black background. Registration for the free event at fearlesschangepatterns.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
rebeccawb.bsky.social
This year marks the 32nd year of the PLoP conference held in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge at Skamania Lodge. Spark your creativity. Satisfy your itch to explore the potential of patterns. Submit a proposal for an Imagination Run Wild session. Feel free to ask me Qs

See: plopcon.org/plop2025/
July 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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bethcodes.bsky.social
I’m doing a thing!

I don’t think the problem with Democrats is our policies, or that some of us are trans. It’s that too many Democrats are desperate to be liked by people they look down on.

I don’t look down on baristas: I was one.

I hope to be of service again.
beth4ma.bsky.social Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · Jul 17
I am running for Congress to fight for our country. I’m not here to be polite – I am here to stand up for the working class. Together we’ll prove what should’ve been obvious all along: trans people aren’t political props - we’re leaders.

Visit bethfordemocracy.com to learn more about our campaign!
Graphic for congressional candidate Bethany Andres‑Beck. Top: campaign logo reads “Bethany ANDRES‑BECK for CONGRESS” in white on a navy‑blue background. An orange quotation‑mark graphic frames the candidate’s statement in white and orange text. The statement is identical to the image's caption. The quote is attributed to “ Bethany Andres‑Beck, Candidate for MA‑06.” In the bottom-right quadrant is a photo of Bethany Andres‑Beck, a person with short hair and beard, round glasses, teal T‑shirt under an unbuttoned gray chambray shirt, standing with arms folded and a slight smile. The link to the campaign website “bethfordemocracy.com” is in orange in the bottom left of the image.
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
rebeccawb.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to DDD Europe next week! I'm leading a hands-on workshop, Expanding Your Design Heuristics one Experiment at a Time... where we'll be designing experiments and learning about sharing/collecting our design heuristics.

2025.dddeurope.com
DDD Europe 2025 - Software Modelling & Design Conference
2025.dddeurope.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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tekiegirl.bsky.social
I'm excited to be running a brand new ✨ hands-on 🙌 workshop at @dddeu.bsky.social in a week's time! Join me for 2 hours of design as we explore a problem. What is design? I'll tell you via the #ACEDmodel

#software #softwareDesign #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareEngineering
Domain Driven Design Europe, lab: Design a System in 2 hours with Jacqui Read. June 4-5-6, 2025, Antwerp, dddeurope.com. A photo of Jacqui Read speaking on stage in the top right.
May 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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kai-arzheimer.com
The 5 stages of grieving, UK edition
May 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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dddeu.bsky.social
Knowledge of the complex systems we work within, and design-evolve, is distributed. Acting that impacts the system, is too. We will explore how we can shape and evolve our systems -- as systems: buff.ly/cFlCFsn
May 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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ruthmalan.bsky.social
It’s a wonderful conference that has fostered a vibrant learning community around software design practice. It’s a Good Thing to support and sponsor:
dddeu.bsky.social Domain-Driven Design Europe @dddeu.bsky.social · May 14
⏰ Last call:
Your opportunity to have hundreds of conversations with senior developers, data engineers, and software architects who are building large-scale software systems. Contact us: [email protected] - buff.ly/URZNb52
May 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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alexschl.bsky.social
Having some critical thoughts about using AI to enhance your user story descriptions. Because I thought that the whole point was to have conversations, not generate text so my Jira tickets are fuller. #gtd
May 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
rebeccawb.bsky.social
Once again, Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices (PLoP), will be@Skamania Lodge, in the Columbia River Gorge Oct 12-15. See: plopcon.org/plop2025/
We're committed to improving quality of life by designing&using social&echnical systems in humane, sustainable, effective ways...join us!
Home - PLoP 2025 - 32nd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices
Learn more about the conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, & Practices and the history and mission of PLoP.
plopcon.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A cartoon reminder that it’s probably Mother’s Day tomorrow unless you are in the UK.
Title: Just in time for Mother's Day: Classic literature with added Mums Panel 1: Moby Dick "Ahab! Moby! Enough of this nonsense. Apologise to each other and if you can't get along, stay apart." says Ahab's mother, standing in a little boat and looking sternly into Moby's eye, while her son sits chastened behing her. Panel 2: Casino Royale. "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred... And a sweet sherry for my mother." says James Bond. His mother calls over feom their table "Just a little one." Panel 3: The Lord of the Rings. "You can look for your ring after you tidy your room and walk the dog, Sauron." says Sauron's mother, holding out the dog lead to her son, who replies "Aw, mum!".
May 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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conways-law.bsky.social
To argue that what's going on in US politics now is driven by greed of Republican politicians is a time-wasting blunder. What's going on now is State Capture. It's not that uncommon. We have to understand the enemy if we're going to fight it successfully.
melconway.com/Home/pdf/Cap...
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May 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I don't like to shame, but if you're still actively using Twitter, the best time to stop was when Musk took over; the second best time is now.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · May 6
the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
www.404media.co
May 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM