{"id":1056,"date":"2005-06-23T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2005-06-23T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:19:45","slug":"best-software-writing-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/best-software-writing-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Software Writing I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brevity.org\/misc\/bestswi.html\">Neil Kandalgaonkar<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2005\/06\/making_book\">John Gruber<\/a>):\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/brevity.org\/misc\/bestswi.html\">\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelonsoftware.com\/\">Joel Spolsky<\/a> has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apress.com\/book\/bookDisplay.html?bID=453\">The Best Software Writing I<\/a><\/i>. He released the chapter listing in June 2005, and I noticed that a lot of them were blog posts that I&rsquo;d read before. I wondered how much of the book was taken from online content. A few minutes of hacking later, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apis\/\">programmed equivalent<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\">Google<\/a>&rsquo;s &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Feeling Lucky&rdquo; had found every single chapter.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Kandalgaonkar (via John Gruber): Joel Spolsky has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls The Best Software Writing I. He released the chapter listing in June 2005, and I noticed that a lot of them were blog posts that I&rsquo;d read before. I wondered how much of the book was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}