# About programming itself

* [Inherits Nothing](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/inherits-nothing.html)
* [Worse is Better](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/worse-is-better.html)
* [The Joy of Deletion](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/the-joy-of-deletion.html)
* [Why aren't my optimizations optimizing?](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/why-arent-my-optimizations-optimizing.htmlhttp://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/why-arent-my-optimizations-optimizing.html)
* [Loose Typing Sinks Ships](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/loose-typing-sinks-ships.html)
* [Development is Inherently Wicked](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/development-is-inherently-wicked.html)
* [Performance Considered Harmful](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/performance-considered-harmful.html)
* [The Delusion of Reuse and the Rule of Three](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/the-delusion-of-reuse.html)
* [Why Objects Suck, Revisited](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/why-objects-suck-revisited.html)
* [Why Your Code Sucks... and Mine Doesn't](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/why-your-code-sucks-and-mine-doesnt.html)
* [How about an hourly build?](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/how-about-an-hourly-build.html)
* [KISS and YAGNI](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/kiss-and-yagni.html)
* [We're Building the Space Shuttle](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/were-building-the-space-shuttle.html)
* [Good Programmers Get Off Their Butts](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/11/good-programmers-get-off-their-butts.html)
* [On American Programmers](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/11/on-american-programmers.html)
* [It Came From Planet Architecture](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/it-came-from-planet-architecture.html)
* [The real cost of performance](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/01/the-real-cost-of-performance.html)
* [The Prototype Pitfall](http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-prototype-pitfall/)
* [Unit Testing vs. Beta Testing](http://blog.codinghorror.com/unit-testing-vs-beta-testing/)
* [Not All Bugs Are Worth Fixing](http://blog.codinghorror.com/not-all-bugs-are-worth-fixing/)
* [I Shall Call It.. SomethingManager](http://blog.codinghorror.com/i-shall-call-it-somethingmanager/)
* [Code Elegance, Code Balance](http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-elegance-code-balance/)