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The Rule of Three 19 Jul 2013 | 11:19 am
Every programmer ever born thinks whatever idea just popped out of their head into their editor is the most generalized, most flexible, most one-size-fits all solution that has ever been conceived. We...
So You Don't Want to be a Programmer After All 30 Apr 2013 | 04:45 am
I get a surprising number of emails from career programmers who have spent some time in the profession and eventually decided it just isn't for them. Most recently this: I finished a computer science...
Why Ruby? 22 Mar 2013 | 12:34 pm
I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, an...
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit 6 Feb 2013 | 12:59 am
Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That's a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this: We'd love to get your expert advice...
The End of Ragequitting 22 Jan 2013 | 02:10 am
When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That's what Aaron ...
Web Discussions: Flat by Design 14 Dec 2012 | 06:24 am
It's been six years since I wrote Discussions: Flat or Threaded? and, despite a bunch of evolution on the web since then, my opinion on this has not fundamentally changed. If anything, my opinion has...
The Organism Will Do Whatever It Damn Well Pleases 1 Dec 2012 | 02:28 pm
In the go-go world of software development, we're so consumed with learning new things, so fascinated with the procession of shiny new objects that I think we sometimes lose sight of our history. I do...
For a Bit of Colored Ribbon 26 Nov 2012 | 02:11 pm
For the last year or so, I've been getting these two page energy assessment reports in the mail from Pacific Gas & Electric, our California utility company, comparing our household's energy use to tho...
Touch Laptops 19 Nov 2012 | 02:23 pm
I'm a little embarrassed to admit how much I like the Surface RT. I wasn't expecting a lot when I ordered it, but after a day of use, I realized this was more than Yet Another Gadget. It might represe...
A SSD in Your Pocket 13 Nov 2012 | 01:21 pm
I woke up a few days ago and realized I was still carrying the same 32 GB USB flash drive on my keychain that I purchased in 2010. I thought to myself, this is an unacceptable state of affairs. Totall...
