tl;dr:“There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It's not a fancy imaginary concept, it can't be misleading - cognitive load is there, and we can feel it.”
tl;dr:“There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It's not a fancy imaginary concept, it can't be misleading - cognitive load is there, and we can feel it.”
tl;dr:“We spend far more time reading and understanding code than writing it. Therefore, the amount of cognitive load we need to build in our brains in order to understand code is crucial.” This post looks at every decision, every trendy buzzword, and every fancy technology through the lens of cognitive load.”