"I like developers, and letting PHBs put devs in a dungeon is bad"? More to it, but that seems to be a recurring theme in Joel's writing. He makes things that

"I like developers, and letting PHBs put devs in a dungeon is bad"? More to it, but that seems to be a recurring theme in Joel's writing. He makes things that explicitly help developers, whether its a bug tracking system, or a Q&A board for devs. In one column he says that a small software company or startup manager's job is to provide the illusion that developing software is all there is to do (all that matters).