Excellent pair of posts: meta-rational advice on software development at the wizard level. They appear to directly contradict each other, but both are powerful ways of thinking about complex systems. https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/ … https://blog.nelhage.com/post/systems-that-defy-understanding/ …
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The 'not magic' mindset seems to be really important psychologically for having patience/tenacity to find bugs. Also emphasised in Talking About Machines - best technicians are sure they'll always find the problem eventually.
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Lucy, take a look at this, I think you might really enjoy :) https://danluu.com/teach-debugging/ …
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Another one he runs, which is a good source of software incident reports:https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/
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