We love you, Jeff.
Congratulations, your blog is a piece of art. It has motivated me to start my own blog.
I don’t know about all you other guys/gals, but I never write bad code… it’s the interpreter/compiler that causes the bugs in my code… I know exactly what I want the program to do, it’s the computer that gets it wrong.
I love this blog, and I am glad you made a Google widget so I was able to find it.
opensoresfreak: I have a student worker on my team that wasn’t in school yet when I was taking my last Data Structures class…
Jeff,
Thank you for the gift of your time and software development philosophy. The only limb gnawing around here occurs when my cats snack on the Christmas tree.
Happy Holidays to you.
/Andy
It was kind of nice when I realized that I was the coding horror. And, of course, I did think that I wasn’t really the horror (that belonged to Marlon Brando); I thought I was coming along.
Now I know that I really am the horror. I’ve realized after nigh on 8 years that I don’t even have enough knowledge and experience to be decent.
I’m getting laid off, and having a difficult time finding new work. I’ve put massive amounts of time and study into this career and I’ll be very lucky to be re-hired @ 70K. Talk about not worth it!
I used to love it, so it didn’t matter so much, but loving it only lasts so long when so many circumstances are out of your control (don’t have the freedom to start my own business).
I see lots of people encouraging youngsters to choose this career path. Nonsense! Don’t do it!
I’ll be very lucky to be re-hired @ 70K.
Nobody needs more than 64k so you should be ok! 
J,
You did it again!
Here I’m just minding my own business, plugging away at IT support at a busy university lab–and loving it–and not even thinking about the whole development process, let alone laying down a single letter of code, and you have to go and write something that inspiring and transcendent. It makes me want to sell all my things, give the money to the poor, and live an ascetic life in…well, anywhere. Or, just carry a mirror around, you know, just waiting.
Seriously though, that was beautiful. I’m printing this out and stuffing the page in my tattered copy of “The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart”.
Alexander Safir GS-ITS CST
Sometimes your posts can be tedious, self-serving, boring, and pompous. Nobody’s perfect.
cheese: I suppose that post was a bit trollish… I apologize for that, and thank you for explaining the code to me.
About the post though, I really liked it, and I think the reason it was so good is because it was basically a hollywood-movie version of the about me page. You showed us how other people see you, how you see yourself, you examined your blog’s most humble origins, and it’s even more humble reason for existing… Maybe it’s just the fact that it left me feeling good at the end, like I also had some reason to exist, but in any case, this was an awesome post, and it exemplifies the reason I keep coming back hear to read (rather than comment).
P.S. I don’t know why, but I kind of feel like you’ve answered the meaning of life, if only a little bit 
In defense with the others…thanks for writing what I feel is an entertaining blog. You include some personality in your articles…articles that if written by anyone else would probably be rather bland.
And in the end, there’s a reason Coding Horror ranks high.
Thanks for making my lunch hours enjoyable. Cheers.
Jeff,
I love your blog. Like others, my first impression was WTF stuff (actually the first article I’ve read WAS a WTF-like, though I don’t remember which one it was… anyway).
I soon realized that it wasn’t. It’s this geekness type of talk that I love and finally found here. I love every article.
Thanks for all the good literature you filled the web with.
Rod.
Wow,
If people don’t like your blog, it’s so easy to stop reading it. Too many haters in this world.
“I read it three times in one week.”
WTF, weren’t you working during this time? Its like an 800+ page book.
Jeff,
Thanks as a non-coder who has to understand the mindset of coders your blogs have been invaluable, humorous and insightful. This blog is particularly well done because you manged to explore coding and blogging.
Keep up the good.
I have always been a fan of your work, because it’s obvious your a quality guy, that cares about the craft of your work so much, your sharing the lessons your learning with all of us.
I love coding so much, just sad my industry is so screwed.
But keep up the great work.
Reading the comments to this post, the word “inspiration” stands out, and thats exactly what this blog is to me as well. You can find hundreds of blogs out there about programming, but yours is one of the few (or dare I say the only?) blogs that goes beyond that to discuss the philosophy of programming. You are the Ralph Waldo Emerson of programming blogs!
A professor explained programming the following way in class, and I think he hit it on the nail: “Programming is writing logic with such precision a machine can understand it.”
My interests vary between philosophy, software, and media theory. However, although they seem different to others it’s all the same to me and it’s rooted in a passion for concepts and ideas.
Software development is so uniquely amazing, and why it’s my favorite, in that your play with ideas and concepts can express themselves with this level of precision, that you can unit test them, that you can build upon so many other ideas so explicitly. The arts are great, and philosophy in English is amazing, but there’s such a satisfaction in computer programming that I haven’t found anything else like it.
Cheers to the love of code!
Jeff, nice web site. Lot’s of great info. I like the code horror theme. Also, I didn’t know there was a second version of the code complete book! It is so true how important it is to develop as if it were for yourself…never slacking on code design just because it is for someone else. Your site takes me back also to the good old days of programming the atari 130xe. Keep up the good work.
Adiel
I’m only a senior in high school whose just recently discovered my latent love for computer science and the like and I can’t get enough of your blog. How you manage to find the time to add the level of polish each post has is beyond me. Keep it up, Jeff.
I’ve read this blog quite frequently, normally I do not comment, but this time I’m more than compelled to. The criticism you received about your blog is without a doubt completely misguided and inane.
Every article I’ve read, does just what every other comment from your readers have agreed upon. We’re awful coders and can ALWAYS improve. I personally like the humility once in awhile in a world where it is easy to fall into a holier-than-thou mindset where we feel our creations are always going to be infallible.
Thanks Jeff! Keep up the great work.