Jim Holmes on Slack (no, not the chat app)
100% utilization turns freeways—and software teams—into parking lots. Jim Holmes
Dustin Moskovitz on work/life balance
So it is with deep sadness that I observe the current culture of intensity in the tech industry. Dustin Moskovitz
David R. MacIver on finished libraries
The end of life for software should be stability, not bitrot, and I’d like a way to fix that. David R. MacIver
Bob Martin on why everyone should learn assembly
My goal in advocating that everyone learn such a language is to make sure that the magic is destroyed. Robert C. Martin
Known unknowns
If you haven’t done it before–if you haven’t built something close to this before–then all bets are off. James Hague
Shame as the currency of Open Source
…basically we’ve built an industry on free labour, and we’ve concluded that we’d much rather make people work for free in their spare time to produce adequate software and shame…
Show your work
Show off your mistakes, your bad code, your misunderstandings to reclaim the idea that programmers are nothing more than human. The Power of Drafts
John M. Carroll on Tools
New tools, in turn, alter the tasks for which they were designed, indeed alter the situations in which the tasks occur and even the conditions that cause people to want…
Weird, but not TOO weird
it’s important to be considerate of how many things in your language will be strange for your target audience, because if you put too many strange things in, they won’t…
David west on classes
Classes are not essential to object thinking, merely a convenience. David West