Does a method signature include the return type?
When asked, “What is a method signature?”, most people hedge with “The method’s name and parameters… something like that.”
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Library vs. framework: “Who calls whom?” (Inversion of Control)
We call Alamofire a library and SwiftUI a framework. But aren’t both just “using code written by someone else”? What’s the difference?
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[Modularization #3] Why Common Modules Become Dumping Grounds
Most teams modularizing a project eventually create modules named Common, Core, or Utils.
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[Modularization #2] Module Dependencies: Designing and Breaking Cycles
In the previous article, we summarized modularization as “grouping things that change together to establish boundaries.”
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[AI Context #5] Why Use Subagents? Context Isolation and Delegation
In earlier installments, we explored ways to conserve context: clear history at each work boundary (Part 3) and keep fixed overhead short (Part 4). Yet some tasks remain too large to handle. A typical example is, “Figure out how payment logic flows through this codebase.” A diligent agent would read dozens of files, and as we saw in Part 1, everything it reads accumulates in context. By the time the investigation is complete, no context remains for the actual work that knowledge enables—changing the code.
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