2025/07
Programming Proverbs in 1975 and 2025
As developers, we tend to think that our best practices are universal laws that we’ve discovered and which get refined over time. That’s true to an extent, but I think we underrate the ways our environment and technology shape what a best practice even is or what the best way to use a developers time might be. Looking at the past can help us calibrate what is and is not part of our environment.