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Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn’t.

Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even eas

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.

Goodbye, Clean Code — overreacted

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

learn to code

It's fun and you should try it

Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026

Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub

We mourn our craft

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

How To Review Code

I’ve been reviewing other people’s code for a w…

Written? Kitten!

The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!

Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee

This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more

Make It Work vs. Make It Good

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make

Creative Code Denver | Meetup

This group is for people interested in exploring code as a creative medium. It's also for helping people find creative collaborators. (AI stuff is off-topic)**"Who should join?"*** Anyone, at any skill level, who's interested in programming in the context of the arts—whether visual, or sonic, or tac

Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free

An initiative to help software developers waive their copyright and dedicate their work to the public domain by offering a standard template and process for disclaiming copyright interest in software, both for original authorship and for contributions.