There’s this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more “Strange and maddening rules”
What’s new?
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification” too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more “A Dusting of Gamification”
The Stack Overflow Age
I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way. Read more “The Stack Overflow Age”
Birdcage liners
My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. Read more “Birdcage liners”
Reading lists
Over the last 16 years I’ve written 1114 articles on this site about software development, management, business, and the Internet. To make it easy to find the best ones, here are some reading lists, sorted by topic.
Top 10
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- Fire And Motion
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- How Microsoft Lost the API War
- The Perils of JavaSchools
- The Development Abstraction Layer