* [Joel on Software](http://www.joelonsoftware.com) (no longer being updated), written by the author of a small software development firm
* [Making Wrong Code Look Wrong](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html)
* [The Law of Leaky Abstractions](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html)
- * [Things You Should Never Do](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html), i.e., rewrite software from scratch
+ * [Things You Should Never Do, Part I](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html): rewrite software from scratch
* [The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html)
* [The Old New Thing](http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/), by a Microsoft engineer. The premise of the blog is stupid hacks needed for backwards compatibility, but it also covers general Windows API design.
* [Jamie Zawinski's](http://www.jwz.org/doc/) writings / rants. jwz developed Netscape 1-3, and played a role in Netscape being open sourced and becoming Mozilla.