Link Blog
Once in a while I fall into the rabbit hole of trying to find content that I’ve seen in the past. This page tries to collect those golden nuggets somewhere I can easily recall afterward.
2025
Allen Pike’s An Unreasonable Amount of Time
2025-01-09
That’s why, generally, the approach is to start small, then increment. Do something, so you can change it. Get your reps in. Evolve your complex system from a simple one that works.
Eventually, years in, this will culminate in overnight success. You’ll have achieved something that seems magical – impossible, even.
The Mythical Man-Month: Chapter 1 - The Joys of the Craft
2025-01-08
This section describes why I like being a software engineer better than I could.
The Joys of the Craft:
- The sheer joy of making things
- The pleasure of making things that are useful to other people
- The fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning
- The joy of always learning
- The delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.
Sean Goedecke’s How I ship projects at big tech companies
2025-01-06
Interesting article and relates to what I’ve seen working in practice.
However, at some point engineers should start to dictate the direction as well. It shouldn’t be about making your superiors happy, it should be about generating business value and engineering takes a big role in that. Your superiors won’t have enough detail to prioritize a roadmap. Engineers should fill that gap.
Simon Willisons’s Approach to Running a Link Blog
2025-01-05
This page previous title was “Recommended Stuff - Software Engineering edition”.
It was sort of a link blog, but I didn’t know this concept existed before reading Simon’s post.
His approach is interesting because it enrichs the content with tags, comments. He is also a nice guy and tries to spotlight the author.
I stopped updating this page a long time ago, but I got inspired by his post to start doing it again, in a better way.