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Creeds of Craftsmanship

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Since Sep 17, 2021.

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The Creeds of Software Craftsmanship

These are perhaps the most important archeological documents of the 21st century.

Need to pull out some of the other creeds from here:

Resources of Significant Importance

Here's a few more than don't quite fit the one-liner summary:

Talks on Software Engineering
The Zen of Python Programming (watch talk) (Beyond Code)
Crockford on JavaScript: The Better Parts (watch talk) (Yahoo!)
Rob Pike on Software Engineering (in Go) (watch talk) (Google)
Dave Cheney on Software Engineering (in Go) (watch talk) (Google)
Simplicity is Complicated (watch talk) Rob Pike
Things in Go I Never Use (watch talk) Mat Ryer
How I Write HTTP Web Services after Eight Years (watch talk) Mat Ryer
Awesome Cold Showers (article) -
On Scaling
On Dependencies
On Critical Decisions
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Need to tease some stuff out of this:

Contemporary Bonuses

This one is too contemporary and specific to belong among the Creeds of Craftsmanship, but it certainly illuminates a type of problem that has come before and will come again. I'm just not sure how to tease it out into a distilled, more generic form.

Just Plain Good Talks, Ideas, etc

General
Go

See also: My List of Best Go Resources

Zig
Rust
JavaScript

See also: My List of Best JavaScript Resources

Databases
Other
vim
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JavaScript
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