Hacker News
- “The Development Abstraction Layer” or what Management should really do? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-abstraction-layer-2/ 3 comments
- The Duct Tape Programmer http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html 50 comments
- Trello, Inc http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2014/07/24.html 25 comments
- Simplicity vs. Choice http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/19.html 15 comments
- Wordsworth responds to Amazon in 2000; bankrupt in 2004 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000044.html 4 comments
- Amnesia http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/10.html 28 comments
Lobsters
- Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/ 13 comments programming
- How Microsoft Lost the API War https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ 46 comments programming
- Five Worlds – Joel on Software https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/05/06/five-worlds/ 116 comments programming
- How relevant is Joel Spolsky's "Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You" nowadays? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/ 162 comments programming
- There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ 1043 comments programming
- How Microsoft Lost the API War http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/apiwar.html 189 comments programming
- Has anyone interviewed with Fog Creek? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ 7 comments cscareerquestions
- Introducing HyperDev - Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2016/05/30.html 57 comments programming
- Introducing HyperDev - kinda like jsfiddle, but the full stack (Joel on Software) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2016/05/30.html 17 comments webdev
- "Hitting the High Notes" The importance of a high quality programmer http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/highnotes.html 4 comments programming
- Can Your Programming Language Do This? Haskell version? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html 36 comments haskell
- Stack Exchange Raises $40m http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2015/01/20.html 42 comments programming
- Open Plea to Google http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html 101 comments angularjs
- Every time I fight with an ORM, I'm reminded of the Law of Leaky Abstractions http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/leakyabstractions.html 398 comments programming
- Windows-Linux biculturalism http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/biculturalism.html 74 comments programming
- The Perils of JavaSchools http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/theperilsofjavaschools.html 49 comments programming
- Help taking down pending software patents http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html 35 comments programming
- The Patent Protection Racket - Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/04/02.html 44 comments programming
- 1991: My First BillG Review - Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html 17 comments programming
- New York City gets a Software Engineering High School http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/13.html 18 comments programming
- From The Department Of Badly Chosen Defualts (How to make IE scale images pretty) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/22.html 4 comments web_design
- I’m turning into one of those crazy bosses that approves things, and then gets upset when you do them. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/10.html? 52 comments programming
- If you're still programming this way, you're not much better than a medical doctor who doesn't believe in germs. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/unicode.html 102 comments programming
- A game of inches (welcome to the world of commercial software) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/07.html 5 comments programming
- A game of inches - Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/07.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Joel's review of Chandler http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/01/21.html 43 comments programming
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000356.html 15 comments programming
- Using source control tools on huge projects http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/29.html 11 comments programming
- Joel on Software main Site http://joelonsoftware.com/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Private Offices Redux - Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/07/30.html 25 comments programming
- \t Travelers Insurance: Drop Dead http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/07/29.html 13 comments reddit.com
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I - (Classic Joel) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html 5 comments programming
- Joel Spolsky: How Microsoft Lost the API War http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/apiwar.html 21 comments reddit.com
- Introduction to Great Design (First Draft) - Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/design/1stdraft/00.html 22 comments reddit.com
- In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html 7 comments reddit.com
- The Perils of JavaSchools - Joel On Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/theperilsofjavaschools.html 45 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- GitHub - sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit: :link: Some useful websites for programmers. https://github.com/sdmg15/Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit 331 comments
- Effective_Engineer.md · GitHub https://gist.github.com/rondy/af1dee1d28c02e9a225ae55da2674a6f 225 comments
- Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest | First Round Review http://firstround.com/article/Heres-Why-Youre-Not-Hiring-the-Best-and-the-Brightest 191 comments
- This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers | First Round Review https://firstround.com/review/this-90-day-plan-turns-engineers-into-remarkable-managers/ 191 comments
- Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later · mtlynch.io https://mtlynch.io/aardvarkd/ 172 comments
- How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange https://graphite.dev/blog/stack-overflow-vs-experts-exchange 128 comments
- I was interviewed by Fog Creek http://www.catonmat.net/blog/fogcreek-interview/ 96 comments
- Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-shark.html 89 comments
- Business Insider will probably add an inflammatory headline about Joel Spolsky or Jason Calacanis here – Marco.org http://www.marco.org/403653088 86 comments
- The power of the RSS reader – Marco.org http://www.marco.org/2013/03/26/power-of-rss 80 comments
- A brief guide to tech internships http://alexeymk.com/a-brief-guide-to-tech-internships 68 comments
- GitHub - kilimchoi/engineering-blogs: A curated list of engineering blogs https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs 66 comments
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed – Joel on Software https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/02/13/the-iceberg-secret-revealed/ 51 comments
- Answers.OnStartups: Community Q&A For Startup Entrepreneurs http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/10724/Answers-OnStartups-Community-Q-A-For-Startup-Entrepreneurs.aspx 49 comments
- Pmarchive · How to hire the best people youâve ever worked with http://pmarchive.com/how_to_hire_the_best_people.html 48 comments
- East Asian character emojis ㊗️ 🈶️ 🈯️ 🈳️ https://chenhuijing.com/blog/east-asian-character-emojis/ 42 comments
- Rethinking Computer Science Education | by Godfrey Chan | Medium https://medium.com/@chancancode/rethinking-computer-science-education-319a60709b30#.yf6mhjxpt 41 comments
- Six Reasons Why the Shortage of UI Engineers is Going to Get Worse http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2010/10/20/six-reasons-why-the-shortage-of-ui-engineers-is-going-to-get-worse/ 38 comments
- GitHub - nushackers/notes-to-cs-freshmen-from-the-future: Notes to (NUS) Computer Science Freshmen, From The Future (Original by @ejamesc) https://github.com/nushackers/notes-to-cs-freshmen-from-the-future 31 comments
- Figuring out what your company is all about – Joel on Software http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/11/01.html 30 comments