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A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.
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454 points by vgel | 142 comments
Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.
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A humorous blog post parodying how developer-written tutorials full of jargon read to a non-developer beginner.
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429 points by imartin2k | 131 comments
Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.
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323 points by dfcowell | 185 comments
A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.