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The newest in Joel’s long-running Strategy Letter series of excellent articles. Everyone in the programming or web business should read the whole thing, like most of Joel’s good articles, but here’s a good quote if you don’t trust me enough to blindly click my links when I say “READ THIS! IT’S GOOD! JUST READ IT! STOP SKIMMING OVER A MILLION STUPID BLOG HEADLINES AND SPEND THE TIME TO ACTUALLY READ SOMETHING WORTHWHILE HERE!”

So, we don’t care about performance or optimization much anymore.

Except in one place: JavaScript running on browsers in AJAX applications. And since that’s the direction almost all software development is moving, that’s a big deal.

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The developers who ignored performance and blasted ahead adding cool features to their applications will, in the long run, have better applications.

Unrelated sidenote: Joel on Software inspired Tumblr’s feed-import feature. (I came up with it to serve a need that absolutely nobody, including me, actually uses it for today.)