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Again and again, blogposts about code quality, taste in programming, best practices and "worst practices".
These links are what I currently have in mind when I think about good code, and the concerns about
- https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/source-of-readability
- https://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-worse.html
- http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10009750
- http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html
- https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
- https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html?m=1
- https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pattern.html?m=1 (an example of https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html)
- A plea for Lean Software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27661559 https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
- pg https://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
- Dewey vs Izzy: https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/documents/Papers/declarative_prog.pdf
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428386 Density in UI
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434766 Stupid code vs clever code... lots of acshuallys in the comments
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501175 overengineering
- https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015 semantic compression
- https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2023-07-24-suggestivity-and-idioms.html
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505389 why not comments
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968409
- http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/wirth-refinement.html
- https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42417478 Preferring throwaway code over design docs
- https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35090989 steel thread, golden thread
And some talks:
- michael feathers unconditional code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ0uTOerUI
- avdi grimm confident code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8J0j2xJFgQ
- Sandi Metz 2 great great talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPfEXIlTVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE
- Jose Valim on patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkXUp0hCW8