Wednesday, February 02, 2005 at 11:01 AM

Tools for Democracy / Distributed Journalism

On using the web to co-ordinate massive grass-roots efforts quickly.

Monday, January 10, 2005 at 07:27 AM

Watching people watch stuff at the Magic Kingdom

One of the many interesting anecdotes waiting for you in Neil Stephenson’s “In The Beginning Was The Command Line”

Friday, December 03, 2004 at 10:20 AM

Is BoingBoing a Legal Honeypot?

BoingBoing as tractor-beam for litigation. Xeni says I'm on crack.

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 at 08:25 AM

Weapons and Coding

Wherein we predict that whoever decides to take dynamic languages seriously will win the interpreted bytecode market.

Monday, November 08, 2004 at 07:02 AM

Web Antipatterns

A look at various ways people misunderstand the value of the web. If it’s not useful, don’t use it.

jwz.org / Monday, March 13, 2006 at 08:03 PM

java sucks

let’s go back to ‘97

discuss.joelonsoftware.com / Monday, March 13, 2006 at 04:04 PM

Why I Hate Frameworks

linuxjournal.com / Saturday, February 04, 2006 at 09:48 PM

Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming

“This leads to my point: In computer science, nothing [still] makes sense [even] if you violate the identity principle.” :)

brevity.org / Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 01:47 PM

Links to essays in Joel's Best Software Writing I

Nice!

ideant.typepad.com / Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 07:40 PM

A del.icio.us study

I need to read this a couple times when I get some times..

web.ionsys.com / Sunday, January 09, 2005 at 11:58 PM

Quitting the Paint Factory - On the virtues of idleness

I would love to read this but I'm too busy doing work. Let me know if it’s interesting. Work, work, work! ;)

home.earthlink.net / Thursday, January 06, 2005 at 08:17 AM

The Command Line In 2004

Neil Stephenson’s “In the Beginning was the Command Line” updated and annotated by Some Guy.

hacknot.info / Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 04:06 AM

Basic Critical Thinking for Software Developers

AKA: “how to avoid the language war..” must read!

amphigory.com / Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at 01:52 PM

The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism

What “The Wizard of Oz” was really about..

prescod.net / Wednesday, December 01, 2004 at 06:39 PM

On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp

Paul Prescod rebuttal to Paul Graham on the Python/Lisp connection. Good stuff…

metaphilm.com / Friday, November 19, 2004 at 09:57 AM

Metaphilm - Fight Club

Tremendous theory on how Fight Club is based on, and a continuation of, Calvin and Hobbes.

well.com / Sunday, November 07, 2004 at 01:18 AM

Metacrap

I love this paper…

discuss.joelonsoftware.com / Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 01:56 PM

Best Software Essays of 2004

Joel Spolsky is putting together a book of the 30 best essays related to software development. This is a growing list of public nominations.

paulgraham.com / Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 10:12 AM

Good Bad Attitude

Paul Graham on why hackers have “shitty attitudes” when it comes to topics of IP and removal of natural liberties. (Feynman’s safe cracking gets a mention, btw).

perl.plover.com / Friday, September 24, 2004 at 08:15 AM

Strong Typing

A piece on the difference between static typing and strong typing. Hint: static typing sucks, strong typing is valuable.

paulgraham.com / Monday, September 06, 2004 at 07:54 PM

The Age of the Essay

Paul Graham on how to write an essay.

shirky.com / Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 12:43 PM

Shirky: Situated Software

Apps rarely need to scale, so don’t spend time making them scalable. The more specific software is to a problem domain, the more successful it will be. Software that tries to do too much usually sucks.

paulgraham.com / Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 06:46 AM

Great Hackers

washingtonmonthly.com / Friday, July 23, 2004 at 02:18 PM

"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner

wow.