Alexandria Library

A curated collection of awesome articles

Here are some ressources related to Programming, Developers, Expertise. Hoping you will find learning material, alternative tools or just some interesting stuff.

Home > Education, Technology, Entrepreneur... > Programming, Career Development, Re... > Programming, Learning, Code, Softwa... > Programming, Developers, Expertise...

Articles

How Software Companies Die (1995)

See discussion (49 comments, 212 points) - Archive

Every day, I commit a new and more complicated version of some simple code

See discussion (22 comments, 84 points) - Archive

What Is Code? (2015)

See discussion (50 comments, 106 points) - Archive

On Proving Yourself

See discussion (29 comments, 97 points) - Archive

The silent majority of experts (2012)

See discussion (197 comments, 309 points) - Archive

How Software Companies Die (1995) [pdf]

See discussion (48 comments, 98 points) - Archive

The Software Industry Is Still the Problem

See discussion (119 comments, 131 points) - Archive

A new career in software development: advice for non-youngsters

See discussion (108 comments, 97 points) - Archive

Ask stupid questions as a new software developer

See discussion (83 comments, 120 points) - Archive

I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

See discussion (180 comments, 166 points) - Archive

Competitive programming is useless

See discussion (150 comments, 158 points) - Archive

Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects

See discussion (171 comments, 262 points) - Archive

How to Become a Bad Developer

See discussion (161 comments, 211 points) - Archive

The dispassionate developer

See discussion (255 comments, 286 points) - Archive

Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)

See discussion (104 comments, 116 points) - Archive

Controversial Programming Opinions (2012)

See discussion (328 comments, 145 points) - Archive

Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

See discussion (112 comments, 220 points) - Archive

Essays on programming I think about a lot

See discussion (94 comments, 438 points) - Archive

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

See discussion (432 comments, 672 points) - Archive

Laziness Impatience Hubris

See discussion (137 comments, 146 points) - Archive

Things I wish I had known when I started programming, Part 4 (2019)

See discussion (37 comments, 88 points) - Archive

The unspoken truth about managing geeks (2009)

See discussion (31 comments, 88 points) - Archive

Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming

See discussion (223 comments, 531 points) - Archive

There are no adults in the room

See discussion (108 comments, 215 points) - Archive

The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no (2010)

See discussion (81 comments, 294 points) - Archive

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner

See discussion (51 comments, 157 points) - Archive

I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

See discussion (156 comments, 201 points) - Archive

Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

See discussion (211 comments, 753 points) - Archive

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

See discussion (237 comments, 462 points) - Archive

You can't impress developers. So don't try

See discussion (97 comments, 162 points) - Archive

Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

See discussion (333 comments, 306 points) - Archive

Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016)

See discussion (194 comments, 286 points) - Archive

Speaking in code: hands-free programming

See discussion (37 comments, 91 points) - Archive

What is code

See discussion (36 comments, 198 points) - Archive

What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

See discussion (57 comments, 98 points) - Archive

Hey programmers, we need to talk (2013)

See discussion (49 comments, 115 points) - Archive

A comment left on Slashdot

See discussion (287 comments, 419 points) - Archive

Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic

See discussion (126 comments, 224 points) - Archive

Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them

See discussion (184 comments, 181 points) - Archive

“Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”

See discussion (66 comments, 127 points) - Archive

The Metaprogrammer

See discussion (157 comments, 176 points) - Archive

How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer

See discussion (31 comments, 164 points) - Archive

How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2013)

See discussion (85 comments, 238 points) - Archive

Being a deaf developer

See discussion (25 comments, 115 points) - Archive

The self-hating web developer

See discussion (195 comments, 379 points) - Archive

What Is Code?

See discussion (355 comments, 1384 points) - Archive

“Nothing you can do impresses me”

See discussion (124 comments, 168 points) - Archive

Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis

See discussion (103 comments, 114 points) - Archive

Put Yourself Out There: The Myth of the Genius Programmer

See discussion (78 comments, 145 points) - Archive

The Silent Majority of Experts

See discussion (37 comments, 131 points) - Archive

What I Wish I Knew Before Studying Computer Security in College

See discussion (56 comments, 92 points) - Archive

The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About

See discussion (117 comments, 125 points) - Archive

The Number One Trait of a Great Developer

See discussion (115 comments, 209 points) - Archive

Hey programmers, we need to talk

See discussion (46 comments, 149 points) - Archive

You can't impress developers

See discussion (163 comments, 265 points) - Archive

The Positive Programmer

See discussion (115 comments, 202 points) - Archive

The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized

See discussion (56 comments, 147 points) - Archive

Q&A With Nine Great Programmers

See discussion (21 comments, 81 points) - Archive

Controversial programming opinions

See discussion (171 comments, 200 points) - Archive

Russ Olsen: The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got

See discussion (60 comments, 214 points) - Archive

The Silent Majority of Experts

See discussion (115 comments, 274 points) - Archive

Why isn't Java used for modern web application development?

See discussion (179 comments, 107 points) - Archive

Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter

See discussion (75 comments, 254 points) - Archive

I'm a phony. Are you?

See discussion (62 comments, 244 points) - Archive

If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot

See discussion (47 comments, 160 points) - Archive

Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers

See discussion (179 comments, 135 points) - Archive

The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.

See discussion (42 comments, 328 points) - Archive

I just need a programmer

See discussion (101 comments, 288 points) - Archive

How Software Companies Die (1995)

See discussion (45 comments, 140 points) - Archive

Programming: Attitude Trumps Intelligence

See discussion (60 comments, 170 points) - Archive

I Have No Talent

See discussion (74 comments, 334 points) - Archive

Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails

See discussion (28 comments, 96 points) - Archive

Google for Erlang

See discussion (15 comments, 92 points) - Archive

How Software Companies Die (1995)

See discussion (23 comments, 86 points) - Archive

Idempotency

See discussion (64 comments, 90 points) - Archive

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays

See discussion (309 comments, 361 points) - Archive

Three virtues of a great programmer

See discussion (137 comments, 347 points) - Archive

Use Rails

See discussion (84 comments, 87 points) - Archive

Essays on programming I think about a lot

See discussion (10 comments, 105 points) - Archive