Software essays that shaped me
The Software Essays that Shaped Me I started reading software blogs before I got my first programming job 20 years ago. At this point, I’ve read thousands of blog posts and essays about software, but only a small handful stuck in my mind and changed the way I think. Joel Spolsky is the greatest software blogger of all time. His essays have informed so much of my approach to software that it was hard to pick out just one, but “The Joel Test” is my favorite. The Joel Test is a set of 12 questio