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  • Frank Jamison sits at a wooden desk in a medieval inspired study, wearing chainmail and leather armor, looking directly at the camera while holding a quill over a parchment flowchart labeled with software principles like Clear Functions, Tests, Documentation, and Maintainable. A laptop displaying code, polyhedral dice, sticky notes about readability and simplicity, a shield, sword, candles, and a mountain castle backdrop reinforce the theme of reliable, maintainable code in a fantasy setting.
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    The Case for the Reliable Fighter: Why Boring Code Is Underrated

    February 27, 2026 - By Frank Jamison

    If you have ever played a long running Dungeons and Dragons campaign, you know that the party rarely falls apart because the fighter showed up in plain armor and swung a dependable sword. The chaos usually starts when someone insists on building a wild multiclass sorcerer bard warlock experiment that only works under a full moon during initiative order. I have learned that software development works the same way. The…

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