Why Your Code Sucks: Common Excuses for Bad Programming

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Dave Farley is a software engineer/author/consultant, as well as a co-author (along with Jez Humble) of the 2010 bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912. After decades in the tech industry, Farley recently took to YouTube to share his “exploration of seven common excuses that software developers make for doing a worse job.”

He starts by noting that flat-earth proponents are excluded from serious scientific discussion, adding that “I think Waterfall Development is flat-earth thinking for software development.

First, there’s Developer Excuse #1: “You can’t do serious work without feature branching.”

Farley calls it “a kind of curated guide to what I think works in software development” in a format enabling searching and exploring.

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