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Notes on useful software.

Practical notes from designing and building software for real organisations.

21 September 20267 min read

TPG's customer portal is embarrassing. So I rebuilt it.

I paid TPG every month for a year, and this is the interface I used the whole time. A Fax field, a Usenet server, ADSL headings over an nbn service. You could mistake it for a Yahoo homepage from 2003. I despise bad software, so I rebuilt it.

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19 July 20268 min read

Why requirements analysis matters

A ‘simple booking system’ can hide a surprising amount of complexity. Good requirements analysis reveals what the software really needs to do, and whether it needs to be built at all.

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