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Software craftsmanship is dead

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:07:26 +0000

I feel like it's been forever since I had a conversation about craftsmanship on the job. It's possible I have just found myself in the wrong places time and time again. Or maybe, and this is something I really fear, maybe the people who truly focus on the craft of software engineering are retiring or getting run off.

Tags: #craftsmanship #dev #software #work

Read-optimize Your Source Code - Brendel Consulting

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:32:47 +0000

"In fact, I claim that if you don't take those rules to heart in your own source code then you are either unprofessional, lazy, not a team-player, or all of the above. If you as a software developer take pride in your professionalism and quality of your work then you have to consider that it is not only the achieved functionality for which you are being paid: The code you produce in almost all cases becomes property of your employer, and thus, the code itself also a product (and actually the most important product) you deliver. And how useful that code if for the team who has to work with it is what really determines its value."

Tags: #code #craftsmanship #programming #source #via:jzawodny #writing

Software Craftsmanship 2009 - Home

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:00:16 +0000

Tags: #conferences #craftsmanship #london #master #programming #skills #software

Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian Computing 5: Brushstrokes

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:03:38 +0000

"We should expect to learn. Sophisticated tools require study and effort, and they repay that effort by letting us do things we could not do otherwise"

Tags: #compsci #craftsmanship #programming #software #work