I've always enjoyed Joel's blog and will miss it. I wonder if the almost-immediate criticisms in places like Hacker News of anything he writes is an unstated pa

I've always enjoyed Joel's blog and will miss it. I wonder if the almost-immediate criticisms in places like Hacker News of anything he writes is an unstated part of the reason he's giving up blogging. Over the years most of what Joel has written has been for me both illuminating and entertaining. I've only disagreed vehemently a couple of times with what he has written (his stance on exceptions, for example). Back in 2001 I even used his Joel test to dramatically improve the quality of the software produced by the team I was leading at the time.