Falsehoods Programmers Believe About $FOO is an actual thing now. @kdeldycke collects them:https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood …
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I wrote one a few years ago about names. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ … It's the most popular thing I ever wrote. Was almost an HN comment.
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I recently redesigned my site to make it look a bit more like essays than "clearly a WordPress blog." Still a work in progress.
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One of the big changes was entirely dropping on-page comments. They never created outsized value for me (except on that one post - irony).
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The Internet seems to be moving away from comment sections, so I'm happy with people discussing my work in their own spaces.
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Comments and Twitter both promise a conversation but the dynamics of a conversation in public with a power differential are very weird.
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I mean, start with the expectation that the conversation is about The One Stable Version, which is not how most worthwhile artifacts exist.
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Then later on that the presumption that editing a comment is borderline sacrilege, even if e.g. it points out a flaw that gets addressed.
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It's like popping a GitHub thread on a PR *in the physical shipping production artifact*.
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You click a button in a SaaS app and it says "BTW this button used to be teal but we felt like it clashed with the header. FWIW."
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There's also weird norms in our industry which suggest quote famous people unquote are unapproachable but do read the comments.
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Much of this thread is why I don't have comments on my sites. I never saw how it worked long-term, and felt it wasn't productive.
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