[jrockway]

It's worth noting that Spolsky writes about programmers, not programming. Everything he says is opinion, and as a result, it tends to spawn a lot of critical comments. ("Your employer hates you if you don't have an Aeron chair." Maybe, maybe not.)

Writing about programming -- techniques, thought processes, libraries, and code -- is highly valuable, at least in my opinion.

[blubb]

He's actually written quite a bit about programming, but over the years he's (naturally) shifted to writing more about the business of software development and how to run a software business. He's clearly opinionated, but his opinions are still valuable.

[jrockway]

When he writes about programming, he tends to be wrong. His thoughts on "leaky abstraction" and "architecture astronauts" are ... wrong.