lessons learned from a life wasted

• How do you cut a monolith in half?
• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
• Getting away with rewriting code from scratch.
• The Wrong Abstraction

• Elegance is not optional

• How I fail to design software
• How I write software
• A Lesson In Low-Defect Software

• How Complex Systems Fail

• modules + network = microservices

• Why filesystems have loose-coupling and your protocol doesn’t

• Nothing is more indicative of a bullshit job than the interview

• San Francisco for Londoners

• A conspiracy of optimism
• How to parse Ruby

• Devil’s Dictionary of Programming

• Progress is measured in lines of code broken
• Code is more than just Apps