Coders in Transit

Cover of Coders at Work

Yesterday I was in transit for twelve hours door to door. While I wasn't sleeping or on conference calls regarding secure video for the web, I read three chapters of Coders at Work.

There is a fascinating and nuanced history to the development of software engineering and it's a shame that so little of the field is dedicated to capturing it in a permanent form. It's fortunate that Peter Seibel had the foresight to interview the people directly involved in the making of that history and disseminate their thoughts to the rest of us.

Read it. It's awesome.