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Agreed. But that's a fault of content consumers not producers, no? I have read SCIP (in college), Code Complete (first book I got in my first job), Gang of Four (2nd book), Clean Code, etc.

Unfortunately we are in an age where blog posts and videos are a lot more accessible than dense books. That sucks, and means we all have to expend extra energy to find a mix of good and diverse ideas and thoughts.

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> But that's a fault of content consumers not producers, no?

Yeah, mostly. But at least a little is that Fowler writes and presents pretty authoritatively. And he should, because that's what consultants do, but we should remember that he's a consultant for a very niche area of software ("Enterprise") whenever evaluating his advice.

But then, very often, he also make notes that there is no one good design and, when presenting an ideas, he also presents pros and cons of given solution.

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