The most important article on software development ever

When I first read this article, it marked a watershed in my life as a programmer. There is the programmer I was before I read it, and the programmer I became because I read it.

The article is consequential, not for dealing with the abstract higher principles of programming, but precisely because it deals with the everyday plumbing of programming.

I am, of course, talking about Casey Muratori's article on Semantic Compression:
caseymuratori.com/blog_0015