What is Bad Software Advice

Learn from the wrong

My inbox is full of newsletters telling me how to be a better programmer, manager, husband, athlete, person who eats food, etc.

What I don’t get delivered to my inbox is a list containing what I should not be doing. In the software industry we call these anti-patterns - common traps that many people walk into.

Reading about them can:

• allow you to detect them and understand why they happen.

• stimulate your creativity about a problem.

• make you understand that by changing a few tradeoffs, you can change dramatically.

• understand more of the playing field than you would otherwise.

This newsletter will give you Bad Software Advice about all aspects that go into building, selling, and maintaining software and software companies. It will be short, snarky, and sarcastic.

These posts are not based on any employment or consulting engagements from my career. No animals were harmed, names and places have been changed to protect the guilty (and myself). Further Terms and Conditions.

Assume positive intent; I hope you find it useful.