Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.