The Physics of Software
Real physics, and what it says about your codebase.
Each episode of The Physics of Software takes a real law of physics, explains it properly, and then asks what it has to say about the way we build software. Not as a loose metaphor, but as a lens that actually holds up.
These posts are companions to the videos: the same core idea, with different examples and more room to dig in.
Episode 1
Conservation of Software Complexity (The Physics of Software)
Complexity doesn't disappear when you "simplify" something. It moves. And there's a real, honest-to-physics reason why.
Episode 2
Tech Debt is Software Entropy
Code decays when nobody invests in it, even good code. Physics calls that entropy, and your fridge has been demonstrating it the whole time.
