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No One Cares About Software Quality
Assess the trade-off you’re making between quality and pace, make sure it’s appropriate for your context
There’s always a trade-off between implementation speed and how confident you are about correctness. So you should ask yourself: how okay is it to ship bugs in my current context? If the answer to this doesn’t affect the way you work, you’re bei... See more
There’s always a trade-off between implementation speed and how confident you are about correctness. So you should ask yourself: how okay is it to ship bugs in my current context? If the answer to this doesn’t affect the way you work, you’re bei... See more
Marcus • Marcus' Blog
The software industry has evolved in just a couple of generations, leaving little time to reflect on how things are done.
Adam Barr • The Problem With Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code (The MIT Press)
Nearly all popular consumer software has been trending towards minimal user agency, infinitely scrolling feeds, and garbage content.
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Great software products aren’t simply a collection of buttons, icons, and menus. They shape how we think and who we aspire to be.
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more
Many of Microsoft’s security issues, instability, and less elegant interfaces can be traced directly back to the decision to focus on the needs of developers, particularly enterprise customers who made big investments