Most of my work is not public too, it doesn't have to be.
> I mean Fowler I think t started thoughtworks.
Yeah, I've been too harsh comparing the two, but as someone that have to fight daily with the consequences of the popularization/normalization/blind adoption of the microservices (his contribution was huge in this field) architecture I'm not sure anymore if his contribution is a net positive. The book on refactoring was great though, product of a different era.
I agree with everything you said, especially with how important the role of the maintainer is to get something that keeps working over time (both are builders). And yes, holding someone else opinions strongly doesn't make you instantly a clone of Torvalds, thing that in workplaces with n>1 employees might not be desirable.
I don't recommend to juniors any of the books of people like Uncle Bob, Fowler, etc...
Those are full of advices that seem reasonable but extremely generic and tend to be followed with religious fervour by people with limited experience resulting in an unreadable bug-ridden mess. When I think about those authors a single question comes to mind:
What have they ever built?
Reading code from popular opensource projects and evaluating the different approaches they took is way more useful than reading those books, full of regurgitated wisdom from people with minimal street creed. And yes, maybe it's time to stop calling him "uncle", it's not your uncle, he has very little to teach. Start building, stop reading.
> Pleasepleaseplease someone make "Daemon" and "Freedom™" by Daniel Suarez.
Wonderful books but I wonder who would be able to turn them into a decent series. At some point there was a plan to turn Daemon into a movie but that never happened, probably for the best.
I don't know Viking, after seeing what happened to Foundation...
Most of my work is not public too, it doesn't have to be.
> I mean Fowler I think t started thoughtworks.
Yeah, I've been too harsh comparing the two, but as someone that have to fight daily with the consequences of the popularization/normalization/blind adoption of the microservices (his contribution was huge in this field) architecture I'm not sure anymore if his contribution is a net positive. The book on refactoring was great though, product of a different era.