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Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

Andy Oram, Greg Wilson (eds.)

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Hillel Wayne loved it
But no blog post has influenced me as profoundly as Data and Reality or Making Software. There is no blog or talk about debugging as good as the Debugging book.

on buttondown.com · 6 Aug 2025

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.