Readings

This repository is a collection of readings and other resources on software development, computer sciences and a few more related things.

Design

Clean code

• The Wrong Abstraction
• Falling Into The Pit of Success
• Object Calisthenics
• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
• Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything
• The WET codebase
• The Clean Coder
• CUPID—for joyful coding

Architecture

• Hexagonal architecture

Patterns

• Singletons are Pathological Liars
• When to use a DI Container

Domain Driven Development

• Design and Reality

Object Oriented Programming

• Object-Oriented Programming is Bad and Object-Oriented Programming is Good
• Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
• The Forgotten History of OOP

Functional Programming

• Curry and Function Composition
• Railway Oriented Programming
• Parse, don't validate

Functional Core, Imperative Shell

• Boundaries
• Functional Core, Imperative Shell

Testing

• Ideology
• The Practical Test Pyramid
• Rethinking Unit Test Assertions
• Testing anti-pattern: The soviet police-station
• TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong

Refactoring

• The Strangler Fig Application
• Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene

Product and engineering insights

• Problem Space and Solution Space
• Shape Up, Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• Are We Really Engineers?
• Not Just Code Monkeys
• Ship / Show / Ask
• How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human Part One and Part Two
• The Done Manifesto

Agile

• The New Methodology
• The End of Agile: Death by Over-Simplification
• Less is more agile

Languages

• Learn X in Y minutes
• What Color is Your Function?

Go

• Ben Johnson's Standard Package Layout
• Writing slower Go programs
• Go best practices, six years in
• SOLID Go Design
• A theory of modern Go

Back-end

• Stratégie d’architecture API
• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?

Database and ORM

• The Vietnam of Computer Science
• Why You Should Never Use MongoDB (clickbait title but nice insights on data modeling)
• Dance you Imps!

Front-end

• In 2020, what is "frontend"
• CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerns"

Git

• Commits are snapshots, not diffs
• Popular git config options

General and random

• Software development is a loser’s game
• Wat
• Rethinking Visual Programming with Go
• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages