On The Shoulders Of Giants

Apparently I really like the above phrase as a blog post title, because this marks the third time I’ve used it. I also once owned its equivalent domain name, where I hosted a blog where everything was themed around it. The blog itself I believe is still out on the Internet, but I’m not going to link to it; I’m not exactly embarrassed by it, but I am a very different person than I was 10 years ago when it was written.

The tagline on that blog was an interesting one: when experience is not retained, infancy is perpetual. That could certainly be said for experience in technical domains like software development, where there’s a bias towards the new, and few people spend time studying the history of the field. Which is why I couldn’t be more excited to have discovered The Architecture of Open Source Applications, a set of books that cover in detail a variety of programs that are used daily around the world.

I just need to finish The Expanse series first, only 2 books to go!