Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills about web development.
My Ramblings This Week
From Wikipedia (emphasis is mine)
Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying structures, patterns or properties of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.
Abstractions are an excellent tool in software, but we shouldn’t forget about real world objects.
The term users is an abstraction. Also, the word people is a generalization.
Abstractions detach us from concretions.
Software is written by individuals for individuals. Let’s never forget that.
My heart goes out to all the people each person who is affected by the current crises.
I am scared and it’s fine if you are too. Remember: I’m one reply away if you want to talk.
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