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Simon Willison has highlighted three pieces of software writing that influenced his career: Joel Spolsky on leaky abstractions, Will Larson on treating migrations as a core engineering skill, and Charity Majors on moving between management and hands-on development.
Why it mattersThe useful thread is less “read these three and become invincible” than a compact reminder to understand the layers beneath your tools, get good at deliberate system change and treat career paths as reversible. It is a tidy reading list with unusually practical instincts.
Discuss: Which software-engineering essay most changed how you work, and what did it change in practice?
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