Submitted 1 year ago by Gnubyte@lemdit.com to programming@programming.dev
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An old publication more relevant now than ever - The Cathedral and the Bazaar. A comparison of software practices in the early 2000s with some retrospective to how great software is built.
I think much of the writing can be applied to today’s federated content models.
In particular:
fuck ESR
all my homies hate ESR
Why?
i’m out of the loop. what about him?
He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more “kooky” libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it’s hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had…
Browsing post with phone in front of the book between my eyes and shelf ATM
But also this for balance:
I honestly read this every year. There are some deep lessons there that are so important for software and product development in general. It gets better every time I read it.
Is there a place that has a list of classic programming articles like this? Such a fun read. I know PHK has another one of the design of Varnish vs Squid here varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html
This is an interesting article. I don’t know anything about kernel development, but I wonder if it’s still true?
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
Fediverse is Bizarre Bazaar
gunpachi@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Fedi’s Bazaar Adventures