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Photo of 3 brown eggs in a carton with faces drawn on. One sad, one disapproving, one in the back laughing.

What do you mean by "bad" software?

(Before I get started, a moment to appreciate this header image and whatever was the genesis of it.) Engineers will often describe software as "bad"—often with words like "terrible" or "shitty." This invective is hurled at languages like PHP and JavaScript, at frameworks

Valley vs Alley

In an interview in New York recently, I got one of my favorite questions ever: “Besides technical things and coding, what’s something you’ve done that you’re proud of or happy about?” In the Bay Area, I knew people who would ask candidates, “If you had a Sunday