While False
whilefalse.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
A software engineer and manager writes about engineering management, the CTO role, parallel programming, and why he moved away from the Play Framework.
What HN saysHN commenters link its critique of the Play framework, noting it resembles other complaints about the framework, and one recommends the wider blog.
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jvns · 2017-07-24
Dan Luu has a list of programming blogs you might like: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/. The rest of his blog is good too!
a few of my favorite blogs:
- http://blog.acolyer.org for fantastic daily summaries of CS papers.
- http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/ -- she has a business creating a new compression algorithm and I love reading about it
- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ is pure gold for weird debugging stories
- https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ is always a fun read
- http://wingolog.org/ on building compilers
- http://composition.al/blog -- Lindsey Kuper on her programming languages research
- aphyr's blog on distributed systems, of course
- https://charity.wtf/
- http://www.pgbovine.net/writings.htm -- Philip Guo is a CS professor whose blog on his experiences in academia I really like
- http://whilefalse.blogspot.com by Camille Fournier, mostly on engineering management
- http://larahogan.me/blog/ by Lara Hogan, on engineering management
Also I think this comment from Dan's blog (https://danluu.com/about/) is very true and important:
> I view that as a sign there’s a desperate shortage of understandable explanation of technical topics. There’s nothing here that most of my co-workers don’t know (with the exception of maybe three or four posts where I propose novel ideas). It’s just that they don’t blog and I do. I’m not going to try to convince you to start writing a blog, since that has to be something you want to do, but I will point out…
ekoontz · 2012-03-13
Some interesting criticism of Play here - seems similar to what's been said about the lack of unit tests.
http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-im-moving-away-from-play-fr…