Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 07/04/2022

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention.

Why Waterfall is superior to Agile

I’m a pretty big critic of Scrum as an implementation of Agile, and so I have a hard time arguing with the basic premise here. Waterfall doesn’t have to be rigid and unyielding. You can adapt as you go. But upfront design is critical, no matter what methodology you are using to develop software.

Engineering Stack Overflow with Roberta Arcoverde

A podcast, not an article, but a good one. There are two kinds of developers: Those that use Stack Overflow and those that lie about it. In this podcast, you’ll learn some very interesting things that you wouldn’t expect about this critical site.

Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects

Good commits — both in terms of the content and the message — are important. This article articulates a way to view the process of building and committing that tells a story and has a plot. I like thinking about it that way.