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The Canon Links
Updated May 18, 2026
Procrastination took me ages, but here are some links, articles, comics, and concepts I feel are universally known and/or relevant, and ones that I feel every developer appreciates learning about.
- The Help Vampire
- Don't Ask to Ask, and its sibling, How to Ask
- The legendary xkcd, and the fan-maintained explainxkcd for when you're out of the loop
- How to achieve perfection
- Pets vs Cattle
- Chesterton's Fence
- How to become a systems engineer
- Two Hard Things
- Programming Sucks
- -2000 lines of code
- The Pareto Principle
This is by no means a complete list - if you see something on the internet that you think deserves a mention here, let me know! Shoutouts to HuntressRubyRose, Nyx, and Vulkes for suggesting some of these.
And for the record, none of these are sponsored in any way, though I'm still hopeful Randall Munroe will buy me a coffee someday :eyes:
Obligatory xkcd