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The Definitive Guide to Things You Probably Didn't Need to Know

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"In the beginning the codebase was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." — Loosely adapted, with apologies to Douglas Adams

A

The 6502's Grandchild That Conquered the World by Whispering

The Cloud That Charges You for the Weather

240 Services Walk Into a Hamburger Menu

The Right Answer Nobody Ordered

Responding to Change Over Following a Plan (The Plan Was to Follow the Plan)

A Fish That Was Technically a Boat

The 6502's Great-Great-Grandchild Comes Home

A Document Renamed to Sound Archaeological

Assembly Language

The Language Where You Tell the Machine What to Do and the Machine Does It

The Cloud That Enterprise Chose Because It Came With the License Agreement

The Loading Spinner That Guards a Trillion-Dollar Empire

B

The Daily Practice of Fire, Smoke, and Not Checking Your Phone

A Scholarly Analysis of How Many Ingredients Is Too Many (The Answer Is Four)

Bacalhau na Brasa

The Fish That Built an Empire and Then Got Grilled

An Infinite List of Things Nobody Will Build

Backlog Refinement

Grooming, But We Don't Call It That Anymore

Big Room Planning

The Room That Worked Best When It Was Empty

Twenty-Four Hours in a Dutch Oven and Not a Minute Less

The Framework That Made Every Website Look the Same, and Everyone Was Grateful

Boring Technology

SQLite, Hidden Fields, and Stubbornness

The Cut That Requires Two Grills and Twelve Hours of Faith

Adding Manpower to a Late Software Project Makes It Later

Building Evolutionary Architectures

Support Constant Change, and the Quiet Case Against Deciding Everything on Day One

The Smash Burger, or Why Flat Beats Thick and The Squirrel Is Wrong Again

The Chart That Burns Sideways

C

The Language That Trusted You With a Loaded Pointer

The Language That Runs the World and Embarrasses It

The Language Where Every Line Is a Negotiation and Every !important Is a Confession

The Pan That Will Outlive You, Your Kitchen, and Possibly Civilisation

A Meeting That Became Sacred by Being Renamed

A Two-Stage Extraction of Everything the Chicken Had Left to Give

Six Ingredients, No Cooking, No Negotiation

The Blind Architect Who Learned to See

The Invisible Infrastructure That Read the Blog and Converted

A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, and the Book That Actually Changed How People Write Code

The Machine You Went Back To After the Future Was Too Easy

Configuration Carnival

When the Config File Becomes the Application

Any Organization That Designs a System Will Produce a Design Whose Structure Is a Copy of the Organization's Communication Structure

The Tomahawk That Went to State School

D

A Status Meeting Performed Vertically

Debugging the Void

When the Bug Is the Absence of the Thing You Didn't Build

Definition of Done

A Checklist Redefined Every Time Someone Ships Something That Wasn't

The Answer That Arrived Twenty Years Before the Industry Understood the Question

Design Patterns

Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, and the Misunderstanding That Lasted Thirty Years

The Revolution That Became a Job Title

The Herb That Portugal Forgot and Latvia Never Stopped Using

The Man Who Described the Internet Twenty Years Before It Existed, and Was Funny About It

The Golden-Browed Fish That Requires Nothing But Fire and Salt

The Art of Controlled Decomposition That riclib Cannot Control

The Overnight Miracle That Is Just Salt and Patience

Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Less You Know, the More You Think You Know

E

The Protocol That Runs Global Commerce and Predates the Internet

The Bus That Became the Destination

Where Software Goes to Become Expensive

Enterprise Agility

The Book That Distinguished "Doing Agile" From "Being Agile" and Was Punished for Its Clarity

A Project, But We Can't Call It That

F

The Language That Computed the Universe Before the Universe Had GitHub

The Twenty-Three Failures and the Eighty-Three-Year-Old Woman Who Made It Look Easy

The Original Technology, or Why Everything Else in This Encyclopedia Exists

The Weeknight Workhorse That Rewards Restraint

The Second-Most Tender Cut That Nobody Ordered Because Nobody Knew

The Flower That Blooms on Evaporating Seawater and Then Gets Into a Turf War with a Mountain

The Divine Interpretation of Peri Peri Chicken

G

The Best Cloud Nobody Chose

The Operating System That Wrote Everything Except the Operating System

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Clarified Butter Taken to the Edge of Ruin

The Social Network for People Who Don't Like Social Networks

The Language That Refused to Be Interesting

When a Measure Becomes a Target, It Ceases to Be a Good Measure

The Company That Organized the World's Information and Disorganized Its Own Products

Google Cloud Console

The Labyrinth That Guards the Minotaur's Credit Card Machine

The Annual Dividend of the December Goose

Ask for Exactly What You Need, Then Spend a Week Securing It

The Word So Unfortunate They Had to Rename It

H

The Document That Became an Application Platform Despite Its Best Efforts

The Boring Workhorse That Was Right All Along

The Orange Website Where Every Thread Ends in "You Should Use Postgres"

The €109 Server That Makes the Cloud Look Silly

J

The Tool That Became the Process That Became the Problem

The Data Format That Won by Not Trying

Write Once, Abstract Everywhere, Deploy Eventually

The Language That Was Born in Ten Days and Has Been Shipping for Thirty Years Without a Spec Review

K

The Board That Replaced the Process, Then Became the Process

The Apology Letter Java Should Have Written Itself

Infrastructure Complexity as a Service

L

The Cut That Demands Respect and a Very Hot Kamado

The Pulled Pork of Lamb

The Philosophy That Worked Until It Became a Brand

Code That Works, Written by Someone Who Left, in a Style That Is No Longer Fashionable

The Pig That Shatters Like Glass and Tastes Like Sunday

The Tool That Got Out of the Way

The Operating System That Won Everything Except the Desktop

The BBQ Principle That Is Also a Software Architecture, or Vice Versa

The Notes Indexer That Kept Discovering It Was a Publishing Platform

M

Minimum Viable Product, Maximum Viable Excuse

The Computer That Never Left

Meeting Facilitation

The Art of Making Unnecessary Gatherings Feel Productive

Forty-Seven Network Calls in a Trench Coat Pretending to Be Architecture

The Empire That Lost, Then Won, Then Lost, Then Won Again

Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong

N

Nando's Peri Peri

A Portuguese Sauce, Made by South Africans, Bottled in England, Ordered from Germany, Delivered to Latvia, Used by a Portuguese Man Who Could Theoretically Make His Own

The Command That Downloads the Internet Into Your Project Folder

O

Portuguese Liquid Gold and the Covenant's Flagship Fat

The Database You Pay For With Your Soul, Per Core

The Cloud You Get When the Audit Finds You

The Only Architecture Document That Ships

The Butcher's Secret That Most Butchers Don't Know They're Keeping

P

The End of Comprehensibility

Pepper Smoke Salt

The Holy Trinity of Seasoning, or Why Three Is Enough

The Cut That Brazil Perfected and the Rest of the World Butchers Into Steaks

The Classless Framework That Was Perfect Until the Application Needed a Class

The Gateway Drug to Low and Slow

The Database That Can Do Everything (So You'll Spend Forever Configuring It)

Portugal's Answer to a Question Nobody Was Asking

Premature Abstraction

The Framework Extracted from Zero Working Tools

Three Days of Training to Conflict with Three People on the Org Chart

The Proof That Patience Converts Shoulder Into Silk

The Language Where the Prototype Became Production and Nobody Noticed

R

Representational State Transfer, or The PhD Thesis That Became a Religion

Rapid Application Development

The Book That Was Agile Before Agile Had a Name, a Manifesto, or a Certification Industry

A JavaScript Library for Building User Interfaces and Consuming RAM

The Front Page of the Internet, and the Comments Section of Humanity

The Cache You Add When You Run Out of Ideas

Changing the Structure Without Changing the Behaviour, and Other Acts of Quiet Heroism

The Pendulum That Solves Nothing But Never Stops Swinging

Group Therapy With Sticky Notes

This Time We'll Do It Right

The Steak That Marbling Built

Assembly Language for People Who Think They Want Assembly Language

The Gall's Law Consultant, The Bootblock Kid, The Human

S

Scaled Agile Framework, or The Enterprise Strikes Back

Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing, or The Software That Processes You

The Language That Won in 1970 and Has Been Winning Ever Since

The Database That Won by Not Attending the Conference

Salmão (Forele)

The Fish That Was Never Salmon But Nobody Told the Portuguese

Salmão (Lašī)

The Fish a Portuguese Had to Move 3,000 km North to Respect

The Fish That Sets an Entire Country on Fire Every June

The Patient Gold That Collects Itself

A Framework for Meetings About Work Instead of Work

A Servant Leader Who Serves Primarily the Scrum Guide

The Cut That Proved Collagen Was Never the Enemy

The Honest Steak

Software Architecture

The Decisions You Can't Undo, Made by People Who Won't Be Here

The Enterprise Platform That Refused to Be Enterprise

Half an Engineer and a Hallucination

The One That Got Away

Spatchcock Chicken

The Normalisation of the Bird

Research Disguised as a Ticket So It Fits on the Board

Two Weeks to Do What Takes Three, Reported as One

Sprint Planning

Planning the Plan to Plan

The Great Liquid Schism

The Unit of Measurement That Measures Nothing

The $30/month Email Client That Proved Email Was a Luxury Good

Systems Thinking

The Art of Seeing the Whole, Practised by Almost Nobody

The Component Library That Isn't a Component Library, Which Is the Point

T

The Framework That Replaced CSS With CSS, but Abbreviated

The Fat That Remembers

Code Written by Someone Who Left

The Agile Coach

A Fish That Was Technically a Boat

The Machine That Was Right About Everything Twenty Years Too Early

The Art of Computer Programming

The Unfinished Cathedral of Computer Science

A Document Renamed to Sound Archaeological

An Infinite List of Things Nobody Will Build

The Boring Technology Manifesto

Choose Known Pain Over Unknown Pain

The Burndown Chart

The Chart That Burns Sideways

The Caffeinated Squirrel

The Over-Engineering Impulse, Incarnate

A Meeting That Became Sacred by Being Renamed

The Configuration Carnival

When the Config File Becomes the Application

Three Thousand Pounds a Day to Blink

The Browser's Display List, and the Industry That Built a Second One to Avoid Touching It

The Daily Standup

A Status Meeting Performed Vertically

The Vessel for Broths, Wolf-Scaring Chickens, and Anything That Needs a Sauce

A Project, But We Can't Call It That

A Novel About Throughput That Became the Throughput of Novels

Ancient Ceramic Fire, Borrowing Silicon Consciousness

The Lean Startup

Build-Measure-Learn (Emphasis on Build, Skip Measure, Forget Learn)

A Mythology-Driven Devlog in Seven Storylines, or What Happens When Douglas Adams Gets Drunk With Tolkien and Decides to Devlog

The Answer That Was Always There, Waiting Patiently at 47 Milliseconds

The Mythical Man-Month

Essays on Software Engineering, and the Fifty Years Nobody Listened

The Ninja Woodfire

The air fryer that finishes what the Traeger starts

The Nutrition Covenant

The Agreement Between a Portuguese Developer and Everything He Puts on the Fire

The Only Architecture Document That Ships

Brain the Size of a Planet, Debugging Filter Chips

The Phoenix Project

s/factory/IT department/g

The Product Owner

Three Days of Training to Conflict with Three People on the Org Chart

The Pendulum That Solves Nothing But Never Stops Swinging

The Last Step of Cooking, Not the First Step of Serving

The Retrospective

Group Therapy With Sticky Notes

The Reverse Sear

Low First, Then Violence

This Time We'll Do It Right

The Scrum Master

A Servant Leader Who Serves Primarily the Scrum Guide

The Second System Effect

Now Let's Do It Right

The Serbian Chef Knife

Or, The Only Kitchen Instrument

10,000 Recipes, One Setting, and a Garage That Echoes

Research Disguised as a Ticket So It Fits on the Board

The Spotify Model

Squads, Tribes, and Guilds for Twelve People

Two Weeks to Do What Takes Three, Reported as One

The Texas Crutch

The Controversial Shortcut That Isn't Really a Shortcut

Patience Automated, Enlightenment by Pellet Algorithm

The Transformation Initiative

A For Loop Without an Exit Condition

The Unicorn Project

s/Brent/developer experience/g

As a Reader, I Want a Shorter Article, So That I Can Get Back to Work

The Virtual DOM

The Shadow Copy That Fixed a Problem Nobody Had Yet

The Man Who Built the World First and Wrote the Story Second, and Why That Is the Only Way

The Steak That Comes With Its Own Handle

Transformation Initiative

A For Loop Without an Exit Condition

U

As a Reader, I Want a Shorter Article, So That I Can Get Back to Work

V

It Works Until It Doesn't, and Then You Can't Fix It

W

The Rule Everyone Sets and Nobody Follows

The Operating System You Didn't Choose But Can't Leave

X

The Format That Could Describe Anything and Therefore Described Everything, Verbosely

Y

You Aren't Gonna Need It

The Configuration Language That Accidentally Became a Programming Language

The Encyclopedia That Outgrew the Thing It Was Explaining

Z

The Machine That Taught a Generation to Type in Hexadecimal

Every Program Attempts to Expand Until It Can Read Mail