Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.

Do It in Jeans First(gkogan.co)

54 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 66 comments

Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article(danielwirtz.com)

110 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 34 comments

The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)(ktema.org)

168 points by ahamez 2 years ago | 103 comments

The washing machine in my ear, and an empty boat(blog.klungo.no)

86 points by danielskogly 3 years ago | 45 comments

AGI may never align with human needs – so says science(markgreville.ie)

5 points by gHeadphone 2 years ago | 2 comments

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.

You are never taught how to build quality software(florianbellmann.com)

480 points by RunOrVeith 2 years ago | 411 comments

Blog post by Florian Bellmann arguing that software developers are never formally taught how to build quality software and discussing QA practices.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Someone behind the software(karrisaarinen.com)

532 points by tosh 8 days ago | 188 comments

Blog post by Karri Saarinen arguing that good software products carry the experience, values, and perspective of the people who make them.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.