David Edgar's website

Monday, 21 October 2024

🔖 Understanding Legacy Code

A bunch of reading material and notes on how to manage legacy projects and code

Sunday, 20 October 2024

🔖 Engineering Manager

A ton of links on Engineering Management

🔖 A Bunch of Programming Advice

It's more accurate to call it a bunch of software engineering advice, as most of it is about engineering practices, particularly on large, team-based projects.

Saturday, 19 October 2024

🔖 Serving a billion web requests with boring code

Basically "Choose Boring Technology" (cited and linked in the first couple of paragraphs) and then expanded with "and these are the choices I made"

Monday, 22 July 2024

🔖 I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

An engineer goes off at the current fad, LLM-based feature development. Particular reference made to grifters and the inability of most companies to even do the basics of software engineering correctly.