Jimmy Miller

jimmyhmiller.github.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2022

Jimmy Miller writes about software development, technical debt, empirical research, and reading old computing papers.

What HN saysHN commenters link his posts as an alternate take on messy codebases and on what empirical software research tells us.

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"We ran out of columns"
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Not Another Technical Debt Article
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Intuition in Software Development
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What follows from empirical software research?
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Being Raised by the Internet
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Advent of Papers (2024)
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Advent of Papers: Elephant 2000
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Discovery Coding
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What Is Software Anyways? Where Does It Exist?
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My Experience Building an Editor in Rust
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That will never change. Not here
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Will computers ever become easy to use? (1997) [pdf]
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Everybody Clap Your Hands
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Being Stuck in Someone Else's Theory
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Can OO and FP be reconciled?
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perdomon · 2025-01-12

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase Heres an alternate take of what a lack of consistency and a tendency to build microservices makes for an enjoyable work environment (and an admittedly ugly codebase)

not_your_vase · 2023-04-22