Software Design: Tidy First? is a newsletter from Kent Beck covering software design, programming and engineering. Kent Beck writes about software design as an exercise in human relationships, exploring technique, refactoring and how programmers improve their craft.
It is aimed at developers. It is published on Substack. Public sources put its audience in the 100K–250K subscriber range.
No public sponsorship programme for Software Design: Tidy First? was found at the time of research. Listing details were last verified in September 2026.