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# Jaap Groeneveld

@jgroeneveld · Portugal · Joined October 2022

Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, Staff Engineer

[Website](http://jgroeneveld.de/)

### [About naming things](https://jgroeneveld.hashnode.dev/about-naming-things?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

There is this one quote that I hear often repeated. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton But is it really true? Yes, finding the perfect name for something is difficult. But let u...

3 min read · [jgroeneveld.hashnode.dev](https://jgroeneveld.hashnode.dev/about-naming-things?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[1](https://hashnode.com/posts/about-naming-things/6338a6b359ff0afeb51dabd8) [Oct 1, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/about-naming-things/6338a6b359ff0afeb51dabd8)

### [Software Engineering Principles #1](https://jgroeneveld.hashnode.dev/software-engineering-principles-1?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other programmers. - Russ Cox Coding something from scratch is (usually) easy. Getting things to work is (usually) easy. Things get complicated when you think about the past, ...

5 min read · [jgroeneveld.hashnode.dev](https://jgroeneveld.hashnode.dev/software-engineering-principles-1?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[1](https://hashnode.com/posts/software-engineering-principles-1/633816ff848d8b3ee0a00c4b) [Oct 1, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/software-engineering-principles-1/633816ff848d8b3ee0a00c4b)