The Classics

classics.md

Classics 📜

Technical writing I don't believe will ever get old.

Mandatory

• The Practice of Programming
• Recurse Center Social Rules
• Systemantics

Optional

• A Career Cold Start Algorithm
• Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) and hintjens' annotations
• Fallacies of distributed computing
• The Heilmeier Catechism
• Lumpers and splitters, I am a lumper.
• Network protocols, sans I/O
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Release It!
• Software Aging and Software Rejuvenation

哭笑不得

• How Fucked Is My Database
• really bad attitude
• optional and required in Protocol Buffers
  • Proto Best Practices: Don't Add a Required Field
  • why messge (sic) type remove 'required,optional'?
  • Kenton Varda's reflections on the design of Protocol Buffers (protobufs)
    • … because in a distributed system, you cannot update both sides of a protocol simultaneously.
    • You have misunderstood the "required considered harmful" argument.
    • How do I make a field “required”, like in Protocol Buffers?
  • Application note: Field presence