Thomas Fuchs: How to ship software that actually works

I agree with almost everything written in this article:

Stick to a few languages. Master them
Don’t follow the hype
Stick to a style (in same project)
Implement the minimum viable solution
Avoid complexity
Coding > Configuration

Choosing an off-the-shelf component is almost always not the optimal way to solve a problem. You’ll suffer through having that pre-fabricated solution only solve your problem the first 80%. And then suddenly there’s no configuration option for that little thing that should be so easy to do. And then you have to start refactoring and fixing bugs in that library. And then you fork it. And you probably need to figure out how to run and adopt the tests. And then you find out there are no tests. And then…
Never stop learning

Monday, September 7, 2015

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