What makes software development engineering(parksb.github.io)
33 points by ibobev | 37 comments
Essay by Simon Park on what makes software development an engineering discipline: a repeatable process that doesn't depend on individual brilliance.
#developer-culture on Hacker News
7 stories tagged developer-culture, newest first.
I have a theory that software drives people insane(graybeard.ing)
362 points by rglover | 137 comments
A blog essay arguing that the conditions of software work—speed, money, complexity, abstraction, and freedom to change—make normal people lose their sense of proportion.
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools(larr.net)
373 points by todsacerdoti | 482 comments
A blog essay arguing that software developers name tools after random nouns and mythology instead of descriptive names, citing Stallman's EmacsConf 2022 talk.
Perl's decline was cultural(beatworm.co.uk)
351 points by todsacerdoti | 396 comments
Blog post arguing that Perl's decline stemmed from its conservative, reactionary community culture rather than technical shortcomings, from a former mod_perl developer.
Reinvent the Wheel(endler.dev)
549 points by zdw | 209 comments
Blog post by Matthias Endler arguing that the advice not to reinvent the wheel is harmful because it discourages curiosity and exploration.
The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything(notashelf.dev)
974 points by Lunar5227 | 401 comments
A personal blog essay about how programming skill creates a compulsion to build or fix every tool and problem one encounters.
Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)
323 points by dfcowell | 185 comments
A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.