An old publication more relevant now than ever - The Cathedral and the Bazaar. A comparison of software practices in the early 2000s with some retrospective to how great software is built.

I think much of the writing can be applied to today's federated content models.

In particular:

  • The Mail Must Get Through
  • Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
  • The Importance of Having Users
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago

Is there a place that has a list of classic programming articles like this? Such a fun read. I know PHK has another one of the design of Varnish vs Squid here https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html

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