Author here. So you guys are the reason of the huge spike on my website today? I should mention that the "rules" there are completely opinionated and reflect w

Author here. So you guys are the reason of the huge spike on my website today? I should mention that the "rules" there are completely opinionated and reflect what I understood as the biggest problems I had (and still have) as a software engineer. Also would like to clarify that "via negativa" is a general principle, but of course won't work all the time. As a matter of fact, I refrain myself from excessive modularization whenever I can. In the end, software development is about delivering the biggest value, in less time, without compromising quality and maintainability (or at least being aware of the costs). A nice side-effect of this semi-virality is that I get to read a lot of nice additions to the original 5 points. This post is calling for a sequel...