The Programmer's Paradox

If you are building a software system, then collecting data directly from the users isn’t too hard. You need an interface, usually a GUI, th...

Wealthy people have a very bad tendency to rewrite history for their own benefit. That is a detriment to our species. History should not be ...

Bloat, the burning of unnecessary computer resources, is a symptom of a lack of knowledge. Most people are not deliberately trying to make t...

In the early days of the Web, people struggled to make websites more dynamic. The original web technologies were centred around static prese...

For a long time, the software industry turned against sophisticated power techniques like abstraction. Partly because getting a little abstr...