Programming

A classic that deserves perennial review: Things You Should Never Do, Part I

They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:

They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.

As if source code rusted.

A revist of the 12-factor app after a few years. One persons take.

12 Factor App Revisited

I’ve become convinced that “little languages” — small languages designed to solve very specific problems — are the future of programming, particularly after reading Gabriella Gonzalez’s “The end of history for programming” and watching Alan Kay’s “Programming and Scaling” talk.

Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming

This page is a living collection of summaries, signposts, and advice for these broader points that made my journey with C and other compiled languages easier.

Everything I Wish I Knew When Learning C

This is the foundational Go style guide at Google.

The Go Style Guide and accompanying documents codify the current best approaches for writing readable and idiomatic Go.

Go Style | Styleguide

A useful collection of bit manipulation techniques and hacks.

Bit Twiddling Hacks

This document is a set of guidelines for using C++ well. The aim of this document is to help people to use modern C++ effectively. By “modern C++” we mean effective use of the ISO C++ standard (currently C++20, but almost all of our recommendations also apply to C++17, C++14 and C++11).

C++ Core Guidelines