I made a list of the essays on software eng that I find myself citing in conversation (or just thinking about) over and over again: http://benkuhn.net/progessays/ 

What's in that category for you?

(A few of mine in the thread:)
Essays on programming I think about a lot

Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy...

http://benkuhn.net/progessays/
"Notes on distributed systems for young bloods" by @jmhodges is an amazing set of guardrails for doing reasonable things with distributed systems. Many points would individually qualify for this list if they were their own article. Hard to pick excerpts! https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/
"Notes on distributed systems for young bloods" by @jmhodges is an amazing set of guardrails for doing reasonable things with distributed systems. Many points would individually qualify for this list if they were their own article. Hard to pick excerpts! https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/
"Notes on distributed systems for young bloods" by @jmhodges is an amazing set of guardrails for doing reasonable things with distributed systems. Many points would individually qualify for this list if they were their own article. Hard to pick excerpts! https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/
"Notes on distributed systems for young bloods" by @jmhodges is an amazing set of guardrails for doing reasonable things with distributed systems. Many points would individually qualify for this list if they were their own article. Hard to pick excerpts! https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/
"Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend" by @tef_ebooks is an amazing reframing/tweak on people's default heuristic. https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
"Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend" by @tef_ebooks is an amazing reframing/tweak on people's default heuristic. https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
"Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend" by @tef_ebooks is an amazing reframing/tweak on people's default heuristic. https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
"Computers can be understood" by @nelhage which I already hyped in another thread but will hype again as a super important mindset: https://twitter.com/benskuhn/status/1229419292183101440
More essays at the link, but mostly I'm posting this because I'm super curious what's in this category for other people!
(Inspired by @KevinSimler's thread of "lindy links"—I'll do different ones on non-tech-specific essays later though a lot of them would be the same as his!) https://twitter.com/KevinSimler/status/1171278541788348416
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