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    Daniel Markham

    danielbmarkham.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2021

    Daniel Markham writes opinionated essays on software complexity, hiring and training programmers, microservices, testing, and how people think about code.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for essays like the one on controlling complexity; a commenter says understanding it is important yet may bring professional despair.

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    18HN people shared it
    51linked in comments
    1.1Kstory points
    Dec 2024last shared
    2023people per year2024

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      F# is the best coding language today
      1 person · 220 points · first shared 2021 · 214 comments on HN
    2. 2
      The Platform Is the Enemy
      1 person · 203 points · first shared 2021 · 80 comments on HN
    3. 3
      F# Good and Bad
      1 person · 120 points · first shared 2021 · 68 comments on HN
    4. 4
      What's wrong with how we train, hire, and motivate programmers [video]
      2 people · 100 points · first shared 2022 · 32 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Honest Microservices
      2 people · 99 points · first shared 2021 · 79 comments on HN
    6. 6
      We don't 'do' learning. It does us
      1 person · 59 points · first shared 2021 · 13 comments on HN
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      Programming in Five Easy Pieces
      1 person · 44 points · first shared 2021 · 8 comments on HN
    8. 8
      For the Love of All That's Holy, Use CCL to Control Complexity in Your Systems
      3 people · 37 points · first shared 2021 · 4 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Boyd's Management Model
      1 person · 36 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Cognition versus Programming: The Big Two – Why TDD?
      2 people · 28 points · first shared 2022 · 45 comments on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • DanielBMarkhamDec 2024

      Related: From ~5 years ago.

      https://danielbmarkham.com/for-the-love-of-all-thats-holy-use-ccl-to-control-complexity-in-your-systems/

      Understanding CCL is both critically important and will sink you into deep professional despair once you realize that the coding community has deep-set standards and social mores that prevent serious adoption.

    • discreteeventJan 2023

      The article you wrote on this is worth reading for anyone who missed it:

      https://danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-finally-showed-up/

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126450

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