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programmingisterrible.com

Popular posts: 7
Total points: 1,797
HN comments: 1,039
Rank: #969 personal

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1

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

2016559 points342 commentscited by 16Software Engineering details

2

Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep

2013344 points370 comments Software Engineering details

3

Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything (2018)

2023255 points116 comments Software Engineering details

4

How do you cut a monolith in half?

2017246 points59 commentscited by 5Software Engineering details

5

Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea

2013147 points60 comments Software Engineering details

6

How to Parse Ruby

2013133 points84 commentscited by 6Programming Languages details

7

The Devil's Dictionary of Programming

2013113 points8 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details