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Five years ago, we invested in Domain-Driven Design. Conferences, workshops, consultants. The works. The goal was simple: help humans navigate complexity. Make domain experts and d…

APIs need to stay stable even as the systems behind them keep changing. Each version becomes a contract that cannot move, while data models and requirements evolve around it. Keepi…

Thanks, glad it resonated. I'm at that stage in my career where I don't code much anymore, so I don't really share the same anxieties younger developers have about Gen AI. That mig…

Oh, I've heard it - a lot :) But it's probably not used as much anymore, it's been a long time since I last heard it.

It's not uncommon for programmers - even for the great ones - to produce code that looks like it was written by non-programmers...

There will be a data dump.

That's not a useful metric. The questions that today show up as locked for historical significance were simply closed before the historical significance lock was introduced. Conver…

Hey, "Why are there so few female programmers?" ( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/5780/why-are-... ) is still an acceptable question, it's closed, but only because i…

It was closed and re-opened a few times (full revision history: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/posts/46716/revisions ). Every time that question got shared somewhere, it star…

From June 3, 2010 to September 29, 2010 Programmers was a Q&A site for anything and everything that didn't fit Stack Overflow. From September 29, 2010 and onwards Programmers is a …

NPR, the original version of Programmers, was an experiment, and, well, it failed. Pierre and a few other equally exemplary contributors from the good old days decided to move on, …

Disclaimer: I'm a Programmers moderator. The original version of Programmers was called "Not Programming Related", and it was created as a site for anything and everything that did…

http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basketball ;)

There's no incentive in closing a question, other than helping the site reach it's goals, and the primary goal for any Stack Exchange site is useful, not interesting or popular (no…

And a few deleted ones. "Sounds like your friend is a bit of a dick. Noone wants to work for him." is one of them (yeap, just that), the whole thread was turning to crap. Closing i…

Hundreds of people engaging in a question is actually a very good hint that it's Not Constructive (just a hint though). Remember, Programmers and every other Stack Exchange site ar…