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"01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b19d20909", "title": "The Third Law of Software Design", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/the-third-law-of-software-design/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-third-law-of-software-design", "published_at": "2008-03-07T19:00:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b1a1cbb80", "title": "The Second Law of Software Design", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/the-second-law-of-software-design/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-second-law-of-software-design", "published_at": "2008-03-03T19:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b1a1e6408", "title": "The Goals of Software Design", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/the-goals-of-software-design/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-goals-of-software-design", "published_at": "2008-02-29T18:30:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b1aa8ef45", "title": "The Purpose of Software", "url": 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"published_at": "2008-02-19T23:15:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b1c9c3645", "title": "Simplicity and Strictness", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/simplicity-and-strictness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=simplicity-and-strictness", "published_at": "2008-02-13T21:17:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b1d5bca4a", "title": "When Is Backwards-Compatibility Not Worth It?", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/when-is-backwards-compatibility-not-worth-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-is-backwards-compatibility-not-worth-it", "published_at": "2008-02-12T02:24:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c503-664c-71dd-bec5-ee9b1d68431c", "title": "Ways To Create Complexity: Break Your API", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/ways-to-create-complexity-break-your-api/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ways-to-create-complexity-break-your-api", "published_at": "2008-02-07T08:13:12+00:00" }, { "id": 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"2008-01-13T05:37:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c515-dfa7-7182-9d63-bbefb76b2a34", "title": "Welcome to Code Simplicity!", "url": "https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/welcome-to-code-simplicity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=welcome-to-code-simplicity", "published_at": "2008-01-12T22:20:22+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The Helpful Developeroriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
What is an Engineer?original ↗
12 Jan 2026

2025

How to Build a Great Platformoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
What Makes a Great Developer Experience?original ↗
15 Apr 2025
An Analogy for Software Developmentoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2025

2022

Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software is Now Freeoriginal ↗
17 May 2022
What is a Monorepo, Really?original ↗
11 Mar 2022

2020

Reasoning and Choiceoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
The Definition of Simplicityoriginal ↗
20 May 2020
Fires vs. Strategyoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2020

2018

How to Learn to Programoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2018

2017

How to be a Great Programmer: Awareness, Understanding, and Responsibilityoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2017
Understanding Softwareoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2017
Kindness and Codeoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2017
The Fundamental Philosophy of Debuggingoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2017
Refactoring is About Featuresoriginal ↗
2 May 2017
Effective Engineering Productivityoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2017
Measuring Developer Productivityoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2017

2015

Two is Too Manyoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
How to Handle Code Complexity in a Software Companyoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2015

2014

Test-Driven Development and the Cycle of Observationoriginal ↗
10 May 2014
The Purpose of Technologyoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2014

2013

The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinkingoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2013
Make It Never Come Backoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
The Philosophy of Testingoriginal ↗
2 May 2013
Users Have Problems, Developers Have Solutionsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2013
The Accuracy of Future Predictionsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2013

2012

Code Simplicity, Second Revisionoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2012
Software as Knowledgeoriginal ↗
10 May 2012
Code Simplicity: The Science of Software Developmentoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2012

2011

Clues to Complexityoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2011
Developer Hubrisoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2011
Open Source Community, Simplifiedoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2011
Readability and Naming Thingsoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2011
The Power Of Nooriginal ↗
20 Jan 2011
Before You Begin….original ↗
17 Jan 2011

2010

Software Design, In Two Sentencesoriginal ↗
13 May 2010
The Equation of Software Designoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2010

2009

Privacy, Simplifiedoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2009
Why Programmers Suckoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2009
The Singular Secret of the Rockstar Programmeroriginal ↗
10 Nov 2009
The Engineer Attitudeoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2009
How We Figured Out What Suckedoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2009
The Secret of Success: Suck Lessoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2009
“Consistency” Does Not Mean “Uniformity”original ↗
14 May 2009

2008

Features, Simplicity, and the Purpose of Softwareoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2008
(I)SAR Clarifiedoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2008
Structure, Action, and Resultsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2008
Simplicity and Securityoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2008
What Is A Computer?original ↗
10 Oct 2008
Top 10 Reasons To Work On Open Source (In a California Accent)original ↗
12 Sept 2008
Success Comes From Execution, not Innovationoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2008
Designing for Performance, and the Future of Computingoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2008
Design From The Startoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2008
Sane Software Designoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2008
Slides From My Talkoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2008
Talking at OSCONoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2008
The Source of Bugsoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2008
What Is A Bug?original ↗
18 Jul 2008
Creating Complexity: Lock-In To Bad Technologiesoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2008
Unforseeable Consequences: Why We Have Principlesoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2008
FOSSCoach 2008original ↗
1 Jul 2008
The Never-Shipping Productoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2008
Specific Solutionsoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2008
Complexity and the Wrong Solutionoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2008
Truncated Posts in RSS?original ↗
10 Apr 2008
Instant Gratification = Instant Failureoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2008
If It Ain’t Broken…original ↗
4 Apr 2008
The Fourth Law of Software Design: Complexity vs. Ease of Maintenanceoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2008
The Third Law of Software Designoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2008
The Second Law of Software Designoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2008
The Goals of Software Designoriginal ↗
29 Feb 2008
The Purpose of Softwareoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2008
What Is Software Design?original ↗
25 Feb 2008
The Primary Law of Software Designoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2008
There Is No Science Of Softwareoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2008
Simplicity and Strictnessoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2008
When Is Backwards-Compatibility Not Worth It?original ↗
12 Feb 2008
Ways To Create Complexity: Break Your APIoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2008
What Is Overengineering?original ↗
30 Jan 2008
How Simple Do You Have To Be?original ↗
26 Jan 2008
Complexity Is a Prisonoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2008
Purpose and Simplicityoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2008
Simplicity Is Relativeoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2008
Designing Too Far Into The Futureoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2008
What’s Wrong With Computersoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2008
Welcome to Code Simplicity!original ↗
12 Jan 2008