Format Online paper / PDF "69% of surveyed developers lose eight hours or more each week to inefficiencies in their role" View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Humans Dig Fresh Quests Source title State of developer experience report 2024 Source authors Atlassian Source year 2024 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Steven Sinofsky recounts that Office 97’s growing feature set attracted sustained “bloatware” criticism and turned software bloat into a persistent product-management problem for the Microsoft Office team." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title 052. Alleviating Bloatware, First Attempt Source authors Steven Sinofsky Source year 2021 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Paul Graham argues that freshly introduced bugs are generally easier to diagnose and fix than older bugs because developers retain more context about recently written code." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title Hackers & Painters Source authors Paul Graham Source year 2004 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Chesterton’s Fence originates in G. K. Chesterton’s 1929 book The Thing and argues that the purpose of an existing institution should be understood before it is removed." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title Taking a Fence Down Source authors G. K. Chesterton Source year 1929 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Feature creep is one of several recognized forms of excessive software development, and such practices can impose project penalties." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title Excessive software development: Practices and penalties Source authors Ofira Shmueli, Boaz Ronen Source year 2017 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Nontechnical factors, including proximity to release, can influence how engineers choose bug fixes." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It Source authors Emerson Murphy-Hill, Thomas Zimmermann, Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan Source year 2015 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "In an empirical study of six Apache projects, developers fixed familiar bugs more quickly but were also more likely to introduce future bugs." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title Examining the effects of developer familiarity on bug fixing Source authors Chuanqi Wang, Yanhui Li, Lin Chen, Wen-Chin Huang, Yuming Zhou, Baowen Xu Source year 2020 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Forgetting is an important factor in developers’ familiarity with and comprehension of source code." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title Do You Remember This Source Code? Source authors Jacob Krüger, Jens Wiemann, Wolfram Fenske, Gunter Saake, Thomas Leich Source year 2018 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "As software evolves, its complexity tends to increase unless work is done to maintain or reduce it." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Chesterton’s Fence Source title Laws of Software Evolution Revisited Source authors M. M. Lehman Source year 1996 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Bruno-Henri Vayssière examined López’s unusual local cartographic sketches in his 1980 essay Cartes minimales. Des cartes en Espagne." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Tomás López Revisited Source title Cartes minimales. Des cartes en Espagne Source authors Bruno-Henri Vayssière Source year 1980 Confidence high Importance mid
