“Peter Naur: Programming As Theory Building” (PDF)
No joke, reading this paper is fundamentally shifting my thinking about software development. Love it. And not just because he references Feyerabend and Polya
“SOCCR: the framework I use for decision briefs - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
“On weather, winter, and changing climates – Going Medieval”
“We are sleepwalking away from the world that existed for thousands of years”
“Change has become an excuse for lazy design - Gerry McGovern”
“We must design things on the basis that we want them to last, rather than we expect them to change”
Ira Glass on the role of taste in creating stories. This is why IMO good software is proportionally rarer than, say, a good book or a good movie. Almost everybody involved in software has lousy taste in software.
“9 Takeaways for Product Managers from A Philosophy of Software Design - Viget”
“Adactio: Links—How I Build JavaScript Apps In 2021”
Seriously. Just subscribe to this blog.
“Adactio: Links—How to Build Good Software”
Links like this one are why you should subscribe to Jeremy Keith’s link blog.
This is the best piece of writing on software dev I’ve read in a long while (via @adactio)
“Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor (Interconnected)”
“Technology is part of the problem - Gerry McGovern”
“My area is digital, the Internet, the Web. We are an industry of gross excess.”
“Why Generation X will save the web - Hi, I’m Heather Burns.”
“How To: Very high quality transcripts and captions for under $1.50/minute. - Stacking the Bricks”