On programming

The guiding principle:

You should never take software design advice from anyone who hasn’t had to make a living selling software in a competitive arena.

Buzzwords

• Complexity very, very bad
• The Majestic Monolith
• Locality of Behaviour
• Scalability! But at what Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread?
• High cohesion, low coupling
• Deep classes, interfaces, modules over shallow ones
• Define problems out of existence

Reading

• A Philosophy of Software Design
• The Grug Brained Developer
• Getting real and Rework

People

• DHH on many things, including runninga business, everything RoR, cloud exit, Omakub, and children
• Carson Gross on htmx, grug, LoB

Misc videos/articles

• It’s probably time to stop recommending Clean Code
• The Clean Code Debacle and Rhetoric Tricks
• Learning From Sudoku Solvers
• Don’t Let the Internet Dupe You, Event Sourcing is Hard
• Async Python is not faster
• Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
• SOLID Deconstruction - Kevlin Henney