Coding Horror posts that every programmer should read, at least twice.

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About programms

• Death to the Dialog Box
• Defending Perpetual Intermediacy
• Are your exceptions silent?
• Teaching Users to Read
• You'll Never Have Enough Cheese
• Gold Plating
• Happy Talk Must Die
• The Broken Window Theory
• The User Interface Is The Application
• The Positive Impact of Negative Thinking
• Error Codes Must Die
• In Pursuit of Simplicity
• Doing It Like Everyone Else Does
• Making Considerate Software

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About being a programmer

• Be Good at Your Job
• Why I'm The Best Programmer In The World*
• Monster Project Management
• Skill Disparities in Programming
• Being technologically savvy isn't enough
• The Rise and Fall of Homo Logicus
• We Make Shitty Software.. With Bugs!
• A Programmer's Portfolio
• Just Say No
• We Make Shitty Software.. With Bugs!
• Don't Be Afraid to Break Stuff
• Blue Collar Software Development
• This is your Anti-Productivity Pod
• Moving the Block
• Why Is Forever
• On Software "Engineering"
• Following the Instructions on the Paint Can
• Success through Failure
• Incompetence Considered Harmful
• Code Reviews: Just Do It
• How Not To Become a Rockstar Programmer
• Fail Early, Fail Often
• Egoless Programming: You Are Not Your Job
• The Multi-Tasking Myth
• The Last Responsible Moment
• Why Can't Programmers... Program?
• In Programming, One Is The Loneliest Number
• Discipline Makes Strong Developers
• Classic Computer Science Puzzles
• Sharing The Customer's Pain
• The Years of Experience Myth
• The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault

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About programming itself

• Inherits Nothing
• Worse is Better
• The Joy of Deletion
• Why aren't my optimizations optimizing?
• Loose Typing Sinks Ships
• Development is Inherently Wicked
• Performance Considered Harmful
• The Delusion of Reuse and the Rule of Three
• Why Objects Suck, Revisited
• Why Your Code Sucks... and Mine Doesn't
• How about an hourly build?
• KISS and YAGNI
• We're Building the Space Shuttle
• Good Programmers Get Off Their Butts
• On American Programmers
• It Came From Planet Architecture
• The real cost of performance
• The Prototype Pitfall
• Unit Testing vs. Beta Testing
• Not All Bugs Are Worth Fixing
• I Shall Call It.. SomethingManager
• Code Elegance, Code Balance
• Fifty Years of Software Development
• Code Tells You How, Comments Tell You Why
• Curly's Law: Do One Thing
• The Best Code is No Code At All
• Don't Ask -- Observe
• Everything Is Fast For Small n