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Building Real Software

Personal blog · swreflections.blogspot.comprogrammingsecurity

Building Real Software is a personal blog at swreflections.blogspot.com about programming and security. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Technical Debt - How much is it Really Costing you?”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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17mentions?
16HN people?
2010–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Developing and Maintaining Secure and Reliable Software in the Real World

Most-linked posts?

  1. Technical Debt - How much is it Really Costing you?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. nickpsecurity · 2017-04-09
    Facebook deploys thousands a week: https://swreflections.blogspot.com/2013/09/this-is-how-faceb...

    Comment linking /2013/09/this-is-how-facebook-develops-and.html

    on “Does it scale? Who cares (2011)”
  2. kiyanwang · 2016-06-20

    Submitted Dev-Sec.io Automated Hardening Framework as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  3. nickpsecurity · 2015-12-16
    " Thank you so much for your detailed reply! That's a lot to think about :)" You've very welcome. :) "Thanks for the hints about defects. I like "unacceptable code", but it's probably still a definition not everyone can live with :)" I kind of came up with it off the top of my head. Point is that the code will be rejected on relatively arbitrary criteria. It might be known defects, coding style, what libraries were…

    Comment linking /2012/02/technical-debt-how-much-is-it-really.html

    on “Well Crafted Code, Quality, Speed and Budget”
  4. Fiveplus · 2021-03-06

    Submitted Don't Blame Bad Software on Developers – Blame it on Their Managers as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. LiveTheDream · 2012-02-16

    Submitted Technical Debt - How much is it Really Costing you? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. msarmento · 2015-05-08

    Submitted DevOps Is Killing Maintenance. Let’s Celebrate as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. yiransheng · 2014-09-22

    Submitted Can Static Analysis Replace Code Reviews? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. emanuer · 2013-06-29

    Submitted Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. jabo · 2015-07-19

    Submitted Feature Toggles are one of the worst kinds of Technical Debt as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. kungfudoi · 2012-04-20

    Submitted You don’t need Testers – Or do you? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. JimBirdBRS · 2011-11-30

    Submitted Iterationless Development: the latest New New Thing in software development? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. BigCanOfTuna · 2010-07-13

    Submitted Developers just don’t go to security conferences as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. javinpaul · 2015-01-29

    Submitted Iron Clad Java as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. henrik_w · 2014-09-22

    Submitted Can Static Analysis Replace Code Reviews? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. jaywalker · 2013-07-19

    Submitted Agile Development leads to Alzheimer's (not really) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. phoney · 2013-05-07

    Submitted Appsec – Can anything Stop the Bad Guys? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. JimBird · 2011-06-27

    Submitted Moving forward from Failure using ideas from DevOps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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