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Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
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#22The Big TDD Misunderstanding https://linkedrecords.com/the-big-tdd-misunderstanding-8e22c...
My opinion on methodologies is that if it is too often misunderstood, then it is wrong. The entire point of giving a methodology a name and writing about it is to get everyone on the same page. So if people have different ideas on what TDD is, then people should stop talking about TDD until everyone agree what is and what is not TDD. And only after everyone agrees, one should talk about the pros and cons and assess t…
Talking about it is how we figure out what to agree on.
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#24I enjoyed this post on pull/push based query engines - its examples were wonderfully simple.
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#25https://danluu.com/ is my all time favourite. Unfortunately hasn’t posted in 2023, but I reread old posts often.
do you have a specific post? I think entire blog would be too big to check out, just to be in line with this post
These are some of my favourites:
Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
#26I’m a fan of Terry Tao’s blog, which while not strictly software, is both good for advice and discusses one of my passions — formal verification.
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/a-slightly-longer-...
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/ask-yourself-du...
Both previously appeared on HN.
Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
#27This post (The Techno-Optimist Manifesto), but in particular this section (that contains such gems as “Our enemy is anti-merit, anti-ambition, anti-striving, anti-achievement, anti-greatness”): https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/#section--13
OMFG I didn’t realize that guy could get even more insufferable.
Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
#28The Big TDD Misunderstanding https://linkedrecords.com/the-big-tdd-misunderstanding-8e22c...
> Now, you change a little thing in your code base, and the only thing the testing suite tells you is that you will be busy the rest of the day rewriting false positive test cases.
Never happened to me, and we use a lot of junit tests at work.
I don't see the value in "Do not isolate code". Isolating a single method or such is often necessary, especially a unit test of a Utils class. But I only tend to do this if the "user story" centric test cases don't end up covering everything.
Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
#29This post (The Techno-Optimist Manifesto), but in particular this section (that contains such gems as “Our enemy is anti-merit, anti-ambition, anti-striving, anti-achievement, anti-greatness”): https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/#section--13
Probably the most pompous drivel I’ve read all year.
This isn’t a software blog post. It’s a juvenile political screed with some tech buzzwords.
Re: Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
#30Like some of the renegades in the comments, I'm tempted to share an entire blog. Instead I'll share some highlights from my favorite blog of 2023. It's not tech-focused per se, but rather politics/policy by a former "Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver" writer and EPA speechwriter, Jeff Mauer. The blog is called "I Might Be Wrong". It's a perfect mix of smart and funny.
Here are some highlights from this past year:
"YIKES: Bing's Chatbot Made a Pass at Me After Only 90 Minutes of Relentless Prodding" https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/yikes-bings-chatbot-mad...
Six Products That Will Gently Defeat Your Baby. https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/six-products-that-will-...
AI Spells Doom for Incompetent Hacks. https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/ai-spells-doom-for-inco...
The "Rules" About Which Actors Can Play Who Never Made Sense. https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/the-rules-about-which-a...
Holy Moly Do We Ever Over-Value College https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/holy-moly-do-we-ever-ov...
Before You End Fencing Scholarships, Consider the Impact That Would Have on Major League Fencing https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/before-you-end-fencing-...
Why Is Homelessness a Municipal Issue? https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/why-is-homelessness-a-m...
EDIT: Just noticed the "software" qualifier in the OP. I almost deleted this comment, but it includes a few software-adjacent articles, on AI, so I'll leave it up.