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Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple
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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
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Aging programmer
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The forty-year programmer
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Working in the software industry, circa 1989
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Professional Programming: The First 10 Years
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No other profession trivialises their profession to the degree of software
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Don't Write a Programming Language
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Making a game to memorize facts about every country
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Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
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Mindsets to Avoid as a Senior Software Developer
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Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should
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We need young programmers; We need old programmers
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The Recovering Programmer (2010)
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)
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Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
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To Serve Man, with Software
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How I tried to get into game development and failed
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“Things I wish” in Hacker News
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The long, slow, rotten march of progress
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Older Adults Learning Programming: Motivations and Frustrations
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Yes I Still Want to Be Doing This at 56 (2012)
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The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I Started in the 80s
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Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
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Tavish’s excessively long programmer biography
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Please don’t learn to code
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Born for it – How the image of software developers came about
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My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
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How I’ve Avoided Burnout During Decades as a Programmer
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The secret life of a games programmer
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Robert Morris: All About Programming
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The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
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Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony
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Rise of the Scientific Programmer
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The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech
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Suicidal Software Developer
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What Programming is Like
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The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
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The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One (2013)
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Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a "hacker"
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Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish
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Programming is a Terrible Job
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Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56
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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
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Agile is a Sham
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A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy
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PG's Rarely Asked Questions
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Coding backwards
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How I got a burnout
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(1) Keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use, (3) iterate.
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Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
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How to impress Joel Spolsky
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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers
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"Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005]
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Old
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Some perspective on a destroyed career
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
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Code's Worst Enemy
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft
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Getting into robotics as a software engineer
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Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
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How to Know When It's Time to Go
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Empathy for the user having sex with your software
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What you learn by making a new programming language
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