A fun read: Falsehoods Programmers Believe about REST APIs.
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Some fun reading
So from here (but without the tracking short links) I collated:
- What technical details should a programmer of a web application consider before making the site public?
- Why can’t the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly as in other industries?
- How do I review my own code?
- What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
- What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?
- (Why) Should I learn a new programming language?
- How do you balance between “do it right” and “do it ASAP” in your daily work?
- What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?
Falsehood
Today I discovered a curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
Programmer cartoons
Today via here I discovered What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?.
5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc
See 5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc for some sensible defaults… my .vimrc is rather a bit longer…
Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
This popped up on Hacker News today: Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed? — interesting read. Light forces for life!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity is an excellent and comprehensive article concerning online privacy considerations.
Command Line Interface Guidelines
Command Line Interface Guidelines looked interesting but I didn’t have time to closely read the whole thing.
Do the work
Productivity advice popped up on lobste.rs today but it got moderated. I managed to get the actual link from #lobsters on IRC. It’s a brief and mildly motivating article, I’m not altogether sure why it got moderated. The article’s main point is that if you want to be productive you just need to do the work!
The Wrong Abstraction
Read a great article today: The Wrong Abstraction. It talks about when it’s better to duplicate code that maintain an abstraction. Other things mentioned include: