How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments.

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When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, when that’s not possible, and more.

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What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects.

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Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!

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With constant news stories about security issues with developer-published software in package managers like npm, we weigh up the pros and cons of this approach to distributing open source software.

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What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this.

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Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.

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A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by smaller companies and contributions from users.

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We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.

Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

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Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.

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