I like how the people who are saying that this post is a waste of time are doing exactly what they’re criticizing it for. Godel strikes again!
Thanks for information
we’re going through CMMI certification now … the process is already “meta”, refining the process is “meta-meta”, having meetings to plan on how to refine the process is “meta-meta-meta”, or something…
This is a very real trap. Thanks for the warning!
Google goes meta
http://productideas.appspot.com
See also: inside baseball
- Wikiquote: (idiomatic, US, sports) Technical matters concerning baseball not apparent to spectators.
You have those who enjoy the inside stuff (without necessarily participating), and those who don’t care. I think instead of saying “Meta is Murder,” a satisfying blog would figure out a good way serve and celebrate both constituents effectively without one interfering with the other.
So to summarize: You are blogging about a podcast referencing another site admin discussing one of his sites as a mechanism for shunting off-topic (“meta”) discussion from another one of his sites. Not only that, but you are blogging about yourself blogging about this.
In other words, you’re meta-meta-meta blogging about meta-meta-discussions.
Reminds me of the quote from Liz to Dilbert when he was reading a hint book for his golf game: “I think that’s about as close as you can come to being a non-organic life form.”
And yes, I am aware of the irony of commenting on a meta-meta-meta blog post about meta-meta-discussions, and no doubt somebody else will comment on my post, making this a meta-discussion about your meta-meta-meta blog post about meta-meta-discussions.
I am following your blog for 2 years now and I’m not a programmer, actually, I can’t write a single line of code. So I guess I’m not your ordinary audiance.
I consider your blog to be a “model” of how to write and manage a good blog and I’m reading your meta posts more intentley than other posts.
So keep up the good mix 
You went a little too far with the headline.
A simple “don’t waste your time on meta blogging” would do.
You are also meta blogging a lot, so what’s your point?
My company is especially bad at meta. We have meetings about having meetings…
Wouldn’t blogging about blogging about blogging be only a “double-meta alert”? But you linked to this from one of your other blog posts and that, my friend, sounded the MEGA TRIPLE META ALERT!!!
B-b-but… http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/16009342#16009342
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
I can do everything meta than you.
Hmmm
This didn’t age well
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Even as a lurker I couldn’t help but notice that the Coding Horror blog hasn’t published anything new since Apr 19th, 2020 when COVID-19 got heated up.
Has the blog been social distancing?
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Yeah, I need to get back on that horse…
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With Facebook rebranding itself, this article is more relevant than ever.
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