Pascal

Pascal is the CTO of Alignable and has been with the company since 2013. A lifelong programmer, Pascal began programming online experiences back in the pre-WWW days on a 2-line Bulletin Board System. A Graduate of MIT, he spent the beginning of his career as a consultant building websites and CMSs for startups and politicians before joining Alignable as employee number two.

When he’s not programming you can find him in the garden with his ducks and chickens or reading the latest tome on Fungi or Permaculture.

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You're Doing It Wrong! And Other Truisms of Software Development

To paraphrase Fred Brooks: Programming is Easy, Systems are hard. While the construction of any software product may start out as an exercise in programming, once it is successful enough to stick around, it will evolve into a complex system governed by complex and poorly understood rules.

Pascal Nov 16, 2020