An old publication more relevant now than ever - The Cathedral and the Bazaar. A comparison of software practices in the early 2000s with some retrospective to how great software is built.
I think much of the writing can be applied to today's federated content models.
In particular:
- The Mail Must Get Through
- Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
- The Importance of Having Users
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jet@hackertalks.com · 11 pts · 2y
Fediverse is Bizarre Bazaar
gunpachi@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 2y
Fedi's Bazaar Adventures
j4k3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Browsing post with phone in front of the book between my eyes and shelf ATM
surely_not_a_bot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
But also this for balance:
A Generation Lost In The Bazaar https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
I honestly read this every year. There are some deep lessons there that are so important for software and product development in general. It gets better every time I read it.
sbstp@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
Is there a place that has a list of classic programming articles like this? Such a fun read. I know PHK has another one of the design of Varnish vs Squid here https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html
echindod@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
This is an interesting article. I don't know anything about kernel development, but I wonder if it's still true?
surely_not_a_bot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
It's more true than ever! Not really just about kernel development, bit just development in general (see node/npm, etc) and the fact that you need someone to own quality as it doesn't happen by itself.
arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
fuck ESR
all my homies hate ESR
astral_avocado@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y
Why?
heeplr@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y
i'm out of the loop. what about him?
unquietwiki@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more "kooky" libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it's hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had...
cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
This is something that makes me sad. Stallman and Raymond were heros to me when I was starting out 20 years ago. I guess it goes to show that people are flawed no matter how talented.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Hans Reiser?