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Dave Farley
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Dave Farley's personal blog at davefarley.net covers programming and career. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Continuous Integration and Feature Branching”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Farley's blog for writing on software engineering as an empirical, scientific discipline, and for comparisons of version control systems such as Git and Fossil.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Continuous Integration and Feature Branching4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-04-08
- Pair Programming – The Most Extreme XP Practice?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-06
What Hacker News says?
> tests that cannot be run locally Fossil just got a "patch" command to help with cases like that: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/patchcmd.md Previously, the standard solution was to commit work with potential cross-platform issues to a short-lived experimental branch, so you can check out the branch on all your test machines and try it there before merging it down to trunk. > I'm not willing to sit throu…
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on “Git vs. Fossil: what you should have done vs. what you did”Submitted Continuous Compliance as a story · 84 points
HN discussionDave Farley has done some writing on what makes "Software Engineering" "Engineering" e.g. his 2021 book " Modern Software Engineering" > Software engineering is the application of an empirical, scientific approach to finding efficient, economic solutions to practical problems in software. https://www.davefarley.net/?p=352 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57345270-modern-softw... https://productdeveloper.net/mo…
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on “"Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering”Submitted Continuous Integration and Feature Branching as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Integration and Feature Branching as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Years of “Continuous Delivery” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Distinct Mind-Sets in TDD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if we had vast memory that was fast and, crucially, non-volatile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Review: Team Topologies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autonomy = Anarchy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hygiene Factors for Software Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous Integration and Feature Branching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CI and the Change Log as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Don't use feature branches: work on master all the time” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pair Programming – The Most Extreme XP Practice? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pair Programming – The Most Extreme XP Practice? as a story · 1 points
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