I share this acknowledging I used to run clean code books clubs for a few years.

If Bob and his ideas are part of your personal canon this is a great explainer as to why you should take them out. https://twitter.com/WAptekar/status/1305555571320467457

The intellectual framework behind clean code now feels to me like it's got a core contradiction in it - a weird kind of coding authoritarian libertarianism where all software quality comes from personal responsibility but without personal freedom.

I think there's virtue in having a degree of conformity of coding style with a certain group scope, but no need to pretend there's some deeper underlying intrinsic value in what the style is

I guess I just hate matters of taste dressed up as matters of fact.

As the "facts" of clean code didn't hold up it became clearer to me that it's a political expression in a coding style, which would be fine if it didn't lie about it.

I still wouldn't like the politics tho.

then learning the harms he has done hastened my exit.

Even though I love to outsource the definition of a particular coding style and they seem to be pretty arbitrary personal expressions, why not choose one that doesn't send credibility back upstream to an asshole