Geek & Poke

Here's what I read in google reader -

Coding horror
http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror/

Daring Fireball
http://daringfireball.net/index.xml

Derek Sivers
http://sivers.org/en.atom

Devour
http://feeds.feedburner.com/devourfeed

DZone Refcardz
http://feeds.dzone.com/zones/refcardz

Geek and Poke
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/atom.xml

Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/index.xml

Hacker News Daily
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss

Learn Something Everyday
http://cargocollective.com/feed-rss.php?url=learnsomethingeveryday

Lovely Package
http://lovelypackage.com/feed/

Pattern Tap
http://patterntap.com/rss

Paul Graham
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php

SVN
http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals/beMH

Steve Yegge
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

The Big Picture
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml

XKCD
http://xkcd.com/atom.xml

Seems like a reasonable effort and we probably need more of this kind of stuff. But still I think the industry should focus more on educating developers to prevent them from introducing mostly unnecessary accidental complexity to today's typical apps rather than inventing new layers to manage it.

Related:

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1603498230125588480
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546
https://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/architectural-best-practices.html

Linkbait much? Further down below, Torvalds explains precisely why BE is anything but dead. All that's dead is general-purpose CPUs using it, mostly because x86 happened.

http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/09/simply-explained-1.html

(Edit: which is precisely why I prefer BE for anything, unless there is a pressing - usually hardware- and performance-related - requirement for the opposite. Computers are good at reading bytes in swapped order. I suck at it.)

> I don't understand the allergy that so many developers have (in my experience) to subscription software.

Not owning it, keeping data somewhere else, stacking many small subscriptions into a big monthly bill.

> Software is never finished

But some apps are not in active development forever. You don't need to add big features endlessly to something like a FTP client:

http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2012/03/thank-god-not-everything-is-software.html