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Sandi Metz

Programmer and teacher; wrote Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP.

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lever door handlesHardware

recommended

I have levers in my house and can highly recommend them. They are way more convenient than round knobs.

Blog post on affordances in design, using door hardware as an analogy for object-oriented design

sandimetz.com ↗·2018-02-21Wrong?

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:

A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.