What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
Simon Willison shares a Lobste.rs comment listing software engineering blog posts that influenced his career thinking.
A personal comment on Lobste.rs citing influential blog posts, including Joel Spolsky's 'The Law of Leaky Abstractions' and Will Larson's 2018 piece 'Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt'. The content is general software engineering opinion with no security or AI relevance.
My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs. An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions . I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always be looking for improved understanding of the layers under where I'm working, just in case one of those abstractions leaks. A more recent one, from 2018, is Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt by Will Larson. I absolutely love his idea that migrations (e.g. replacing one service with a new one, or switching database engines, or whatever) are part and parcel of software engineering and are a skill that you should invest in and get good at, not avoid or treat as…
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