Daniel Markham
danielbmarkham.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2021
Daniel Markham writes opinionated essays on software complexity, hiring and training programmers, microservices, testing, and how people think about code.
What HN saysHN links it for essays like the one on controlling complexity; a commenter says understanding it is important yet may bring professional despair.
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- 1For the Love of All That's Holy, Use CCL to Control Complexity in Your Systems3 people · 37 points · first shared 2021 · 4 comments on HN
- 2What's wrong with how we train, hire, and motivate programmers [video]2 people · 100 points · first shared 2022 · 32 comments on HN
- 3Honest Microservices2 people · 99 points · first shared 2021 · 79 comments on HN
- 4Cognition versus Programming: The Big Two – Why TDD?2 people · 28 points · first shared 2022 · 45 comments on HN
- 5Code Budgets2 people · 23 points · first shared 2021 · 14 comments on HN
- 6Feedback Loops Are Bullshit2 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7Why are Reusable Components so Difficult? (2016)2 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 8Epistemology Wars2 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 9The Overlords Finally Showed Up2 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
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- 11Outlines of a Supercompiler in F#2 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 12F# is the best coding language today1 people · 220 points · first shared 2021 · 214 comments on HN
- 13The Platform Is the Enemy1 people · 203 points · first shared 2021 · 80 comments on HN
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- 15We don't 'do' learning. It does us1 people · 59 points · first shared 2021 · 13 comments on HN
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DanielBMarkham · 2024-12-26
Related: From ~5 years ago.
https://danielbmarkham.com/for-the-love-of-all-thats-holy-use-ccl-to-c…
Understanding CCL is both critically important and will sink you into deep professional despair once you realize that the coding community has deep-set standards and social mores that prevent serious adoption.
discreteevent · 2023-01-04
The article you wrote on this is worth reading for anyone who missed it:
https://danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-finally-showed-up/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126450