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Joel on Software

You could do A LOT worse than reading everything Joel Spolsky has written on this site, which is over 1,000 articles. However, if anything, at least read these:

• Things You Should Never Do, Part I
  
• The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
  
• Fire And Motion
  
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions
  
• The Development Abstraction Layer
  

“When you’re listening to her on your iPod, there’s a huge infrastructure that makes that possible, but the very best thing that infrastructure can do is disappear completely. Provide a leak-proof abstraction that Dolly Parton is singing, privately, to us.”