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Code Simplicity
codesimplicity.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Max Kanat-Alexander writes about software design, debugging, developer productivity and open source community, drawing on his work at Google.
What HN saysHN links it as the author's own blog and as background on engineering productivity work; commenters give little opinion of it.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software3 people · 27 points · first shared 2017 · 2 comments on HN
- 2The Fundamental Philosophy of Debugging3 people · 9 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Measuring Developer Productivity3 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 4The Secret of Success: Suck Less2 people · 10 points · first shared 2009 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Growing and maintaining an opensource community2 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 6The Singular Secret of the Rockstar Programmer2 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · 2 comments on HN
- 7How to Be a Great Programmer: Awareness, Understanding, and Responsibility2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8Effective Engineering Productivity1 people · 92 points · first shared 2017 · 25 comments on HN
- 9Readability and Naming Things1 people · 52 points · first shared 2011 · 28 comments on HN
- 10The Secret of Success: Suck Less1 people · 11 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 11Top Reasons To Work On Open Source1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 12The Definition of Simplicity1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 13What Is Overengineering?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Refactoring is About Features1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15The Equation of Software Design1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
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atsaloli · 2021-09-28
You are welcome!! The author also blogs at https://www.codesimplicity.com/
mkanat · 2017-04-10
Sort of, yeah. See https://testing.googleblog.com/2017/04/code-health-googles-internal-co… as one of the examples of a type of Engineering Productivity work that I do at Google (although as you have basically pointed out, there are reasons we avoided that word for the work that I do, although I still think it falls under the broader umbrella).
It seems like the thing that you're worried about (I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, this is just the sense I get from your post) is people hiring a sketchy consultant to come in and have everybody follow some process whether or not it has anything to do with their work or making things actually better. I'm definitely also opposed to stuff like that and I've made a few jokes or snide comments about it here and there on the blog, in http://www.codesimplicity.com/book/, and on my Twitter feed.