Joel might be authority on spinning up a business out of nothing, or writing blog posts that are appealing to junior devs, but he is not, and never was, an auth

Joel might be authority on spinning up a business out of nothing, or writing blog posts that are appealing to junior devs, but he is not, and never was, an authority on software development. Let's face it, any idiot can write a bug tracker. Not any idiot can successfully sell it and turn it into a business. I respect Joel for it, I just don't respect him as an engineer.