{"id":10326,"date":"2006-08-14T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/14\/technology-related-reading-steve-yegge\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T10:13:07","slug":"technology-related-reading-steve-yegge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/14\/technology-related-reading-steve-yegge\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology related reading &#8211; Steve Yegge"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pointed to the (now abandoned) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/\">blog of Steve Yegge<\/a> way too many times. But for some reason I never read it. Maybe it&#8217;s the look of it. Maybe it&#8217;s because of the lengthy articles. But that&#8217;s a fact &#8211; I haven&#8217;t read a single post there until today, desipte the URLs being saved in those many places where I look for stuff to read.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Yegge worked for several years (7?) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> and last time I heard is still there, being a development manager for internal Amazon stuff. You can read more about him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/about_me.html\">here<\/a>, if you wish. By the way, he has also started <a href=\"http:\/\/steve-yegge.blogspot.com\/\">a real blog<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today I discovered his excellent writings. It&#8217;ll take me some time to go over all of them, but here are the few really good ones from those that I&#8217;ve read today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/nonesuch-beast.html\">The Nonesuch Beast<\/a> &#8211; rant about some irreducibly complex problem domains that people think are &#8220;simple&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/practical-magic.html\">Practical Magic<\/a> &#8211; thoughts about what a programmer is allowed to get away with not knowing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/saving-time.html\">Saving Time<\/a> &#8211; rambling montage on productivity, emacs extensions, and automation habits. <strong>MUST READ<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/five-essential-phone-screen-questions.html\">The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions<\/a> &#8211; an exposition on how he personally conducts the first 10 minutes of a technical phone screen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/\">It&#8217;s Not Software<\/a> &#8211; an essay about differences between traditional software development and creating software services. This one is an absolute <strong>MUST READ<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabochon.com\/~stevey\/blog-rants\/\">more<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pointed to the (now abandoned) blog of Steve Yegge way too many times. But for some reason I never read it. Maybe it&#8217;s the look of it. Maybe it&#8217;s because of the lengthy articles. But that&#8217;s a fact &#8211; I haven&#8217;t read a single post there until today, desipte the URLs being saved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/14\/technology-related-reading-steve-yegge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Technology related reading &#8211; Steve Yegge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[1673,3344],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-software-engineering","tag-steve-yegge"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24061,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/06\/the-best-steve-yegge-posts\/","url_meta":{"origin":10326,"position":0},"title":"The Best Steve Yegge Posts","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 6, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Sam Koblenski selected \"The Best Steve Yegge Posts\". \u00a0These are a pretty much required reading for any software developer.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10397,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/21\/the-truth-about-interviewing\/","url_meta":{"origin":10326,"position":1},"title":"The Truth About Interviewing","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Steve Yegge tells \"The Truth About Interviewing\". 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