Investigation & Creation of Software
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Argues that software work is science: form a theory, deduce a prediction, run experiments, and revise based on surprises. Demonstrates with a concrete CSS investigation—creates style.css, uses browser devtools network tab, discovers 404 then caching, forces reload with ctrl-shift-R, reads the CSS normal flow spec, and makes the page layout work. Claims good software is a created world that is explorable, consistent, community-understood, and shows that code, docs and tooling must reflect a shared mental model for users and developers to succeed.
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