One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

I know, it's a stupid metric, but in a discussion with another Arsian the topic of lines of code per day came up. Thinking about it, I reckoned the average developer can do 300 - 500 lines of code a ...

A few weeks ago, we published an article advocating the merits of lines of code as a productivity metric for software development after Elon Musk reportedly asked Twitter engineers to present him with ...

You may not often think about it, but behind every operating system, program, application or video game you use every day there are thousands or even millions of lines of code. An everyday action such ...

You will stay at the surface of things if the goal is just to remove LOC from a single method. It's just style, indeed. What should matter is defining levels of abstraction, removing LOCs from the ...