Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 07/18/2022

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

Use Gym Tactics to Become a Better Developer

I love, love, love this. One of the best non-technical articles about development that I’ve read in a long time. Weightlifting is a good metaphor for development. I especially like the “Progressive Overload” point: Pick things that are a bit harder than what you think you can do.

An Engineer’s Best Tips for Writing Documentation Devs Love

Everyone knows that good docs can make or break your use of a product, and this article has a lot of good advice for developers (or anyone, I guess) who write documentation. I particularly liked the advice to make the documentation “scannable”.

Pernicious Nulls — using and abusing nulls in C#

This is so spot on — I love it. As a long-time believer that null is in fact the billion dollar mistake and that you should never let anything be null in your code, this article hits home. This article tells you why this seemingly counter-intuitive notion is so true.