🚨 Breaking news: Decades of programming wisdom have officially been deemed misdirection 🚨 Paul Tarvydas has cracked the code, folks! Turns out we've been using type checking as a security blanket to hide our architectural shame 🙈. Who knew all those fancy algorithms were just smoke and mirrors? 🤡
https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/type-checking-is-a-symptom-not-a #programmingwisdom #typechecking #architecturalshame #securityflaw #codingrevolution #HackerNews #ngated
Type Checking is a Symptom, Not a Solution

2025-08-31

Paul’s Substack
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." – Harold Abelson
#ReadableCode #ProgrammingWisdom
All Models Are Wrong (with James Gayfer) | Dead Code

Just because it's easy to understand doesn't mean it was easy to write. In fact, the easier it is to understand, the harder it probably was to write. #programming #programmingwisdom
Simple code is hard to write. #programming #programmingwisdom
All computers wait at the same speed. #programming #ProgrammingWisdom
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." — Fred Brooks
#ProgrammingWisdom

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
- Eric Raymond

#programming #programmingWisdom #quotes #programmingtips

Debugging week, Day 3

“Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever."

I stand guilty as charged.

[Anyone know for sure whose quote that is?]

#CompSci #CompSciSaying #ProgrammingWisdom