PageRank

Public notes, links, gists, guide roots, and guide chapters ranked by PageRank on the internal id-link graph (damping 0.85). Unlisted posts are omitted. A link from a page that itself receives many strong incoming links counts for more than a link from a peripheral page. The score is relative to a uniform baseline of 1.0 (higher means more central). For raw inbound counts without PageRank, see most linked.

Goodhart's law and engineering metrics 7.38
Pareto principle 7.12
Conway's Law names a real coupling problem 3.20
Law of leaky abstractions 3.20
Clarke's three laws 3.05
Amdahl's law 2.19
Fitts's law 2.19
goose: open-source agent 2.19
Hick's Law 2.19
KISS in software design and review 2.19
Minions one-shot coding agents 2.19
Moore's Law 2.19
Occam’s razor when you pick models 2.19
Brooks' law 1.69
Dunbar's number and engineering orgs 1.69
YAGNI 1.44
The model vs the harness 1.37
What exactly is tech debt? 1.22
The five-percent rule 1.12
How to estimate work like a senior software engineer 1.05
Gall's Law and shipping v1 1.03
Value, Viability, Usability, and Feasibility 0.99
Running effective 1-on-1s 0.93
Hanlon's razor 0.85
The ninety-ninety rule 0.73
Hofstadter's Law 0.73
Giving good feedback 0.71
90-9-1 is the shape of the room 0.61
last30days skill 0.61
Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. 0.61
Murphy's law for engineers 0.61
What developers miss about the Single Responsibility Principle 0.56
Cohesion vs Coupling 0.51
Create psychological safety 0.45
Most product ideas don't work 0.45
Product Management 0.45
Alternatives to Product Managers 0.42
Product Managers are not Project Managers 0.42
What makes an effective product team? 0.42
Architecture Decision Records 0.33
Ball of yarn analogy 0.33
Broken windows in software 0.33
CAP theorem and what partitions force 0.33
Communication is the job 0.33
Cunningham's Law 0.33
Debounce utility 0.33
DRY principle 0.33
Dunning-Kruger, self-assessment, and software work 0.33
Effective interfaces decouple clients from the encapsulated implementation 0.33
Entertain to inform 0.33
Gatekeeping 0.33
How will we know 0.33
Hypernormalization 0.33
jacob.blog UI framework 0.33
Kasava runs their whole company in a monorepo 0.33
Learn in public 0.33
llm-wiki 0.33
multica 0.33
Next-token prediction (LLMs) 0.33
Notes on Creativity, Inc 0.33
One-way doors vs two-way doors 0.33
Parkinson's law and software schedules 0.33
Postel's Law 0.33
Really useful git commands 0.33
Representative problems 0.33
research-topic skill 0.33
Right-size models for the work 0.33
Run a better book club 0.33
Slowification 0.33
Stable Dependencies Principle 0.33
Strategists audit for progress 0.33
Type I and Type II errors 0.33
Unix philosophy 0.33
What is an agent? 0.33
You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs 0.33