Software Design: Tidy First? | Kent Beck | Substack
Worth it
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you write code weekly and want ongoing design thinking from the creator of Extreme Programming . $70/yr is cheap for that caliber.
Comparison
Software Design: Tidy First? | Kent Beck | Substack vs A Philosophy of Software Design (Ousterhout)
A Philosophy of Software Design (Ousterhout)
Starting report…
Pick Software Design: Tidy First? | Kent Beck | Substack when
- Working software engineers
- Readers who liked the Tidy First? book
- Tech leads coaching design habits
- TDD/XP practitioners
When Software Design: Tidy First? | Kent Beck | Substack is not a fit
- Non-coders . it's essays for engineers, not a manager's process playbook
- Devs who want the ideas once . buy the one-time book instead
- Teams shopping for actual software . this is prose, not a tool
- Anyone needing support, SLAs, or security reviews . none exist
Sources
- Software Design: Tidy First? | Kent Beck | Substacknewsletter.kentbeck.comofficial
- Security pagenewsletter.kentbeck.comsecurity
- Software I Pay For (pricing)drewlee.comnews
- Tidy First? (book review)kalabro.techreview
- Tidy First? - Henrik Warne's bloghenrikwarne.comreview
- Notes on Tidy First? | Irrational Exuberancelethain.comreview
- Book Review: Tidy First?hamvocke.comreview
- Tidy First? - Goodreadsgoodreads.comreview
- My Take on Kent Beck's Tidy First?itnext.ioreview
- YesPress profile (subscriber count)yespress.ionews