The Programmer's Paradox

Software is a static list of instructions, which we are constantly changing.

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Blockers

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Some days the coding goes really smoothly. You know what you need; you lay out a draft version, which happens nicely. It kinda works. You pa...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Systems Thinking

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There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff. The most prevalent one, thes...
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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Reap What You Sow

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When I first started programming, some thirty-five years ago, it was a somewhat quiet, if not shy, profession. It had already been around fo...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Dirty Little Secret

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At the beginning of this Century, an incredibly successful software executive turned to me and said, “The dirty little secret of the softwar...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

This Week's Turbo Encabulator

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Sometimes, the software industry tries to sell products that people don’t actually need and won’t solve any real problems. They are very pro...
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