“This may surprise you, but continuous deployment is far and away the easiest way to write, ship, and run code in production. This is the counterintuitive truth about software: making lots of little changes swiftly is infinitely easier than making a few bulky changes slowly.”

There is a belief in software that making something work is such deep magic or so complicated, that you should be happy with anything.

A really enjoyable three part essay series by Hillel Wayne comparing software engineering with traditional engineering disciplines to see whether we are really engineers, whether we are special and what we can learn from each other.