Reading -The φ accrual failure detector -Hayashibara, Naohiro; Defago, Xavier; Yared, Rami; Katayama, Takuya -Research report (School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), IS-RR-2004-010: 1-15 -http://hdl.handle.net/10119/4784

Rigid development teams break with change

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Good morning, sunshine! 😊 Judging from your appearance, it must have been a great party last night. Why are you scrambling through those half-empty glasses of lemonade?

Excitement is a warning

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Knowledge is powerful, without it development is difficult

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On the experience of working with two totally different teams: one novice practising trunk-based development, the other very experienced being used by GitFlow.

Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.

Carlos Fenollosa flips a table: Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this network. Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of

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Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne

This image was inspired by something Marc Andreessen, the legendary VC said in a recent podcast (The Knowledge Project #129), namely that when an

It’s always great to discover some small shard of history that you knew absolutely nothing about. Such is the case for me with rescue buoys. During WWII, the English Channel was peppered with…

Growing up, I’d watch my dad gather his EDC every morning:  Billfold Fish and Wildlife Service special agent badge Pen Pocket knife Pistol Pocket comb The other day, I found myself thinking about the last entry on that list, and how many other men my dad’s age also carried a black comb in their back […]

What can software learn from Christopher Alexander? Many programmers know that the idea of design patterns comes from architecture, but Christopher Alexander's writing has much more for us than just the Gang of Four design patterns. This post is a somewhat assorted collection of ideas for better software and programming, triggered by reading of Alexander's book The Timeless Way of Building.

REST is an abbreviation for Representational State Transfer. REST is a software architecture that has some best practices, defined by Roy…

Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov is likening the emergence of qantum computers to a financial bubble in a commentary piece for the Financial Times.

None of these are Unix It’s true. None of the Operating System’s I want to talk about today are what We would call UNIX or Linux like Operating Systems. They might have similarities and…

Notwithstanding the immense popularity of the Visual Studio Code programmer’s editor, the Visual Studio IDE is still at the heart of Microsoft’s development toolchain strategy. More than 25 years of evolution have brought us a customizable development environment that goes a long way beyond the original common UI

On Sunday, when I published “Six unpopular opinions about software standard development,” I thought I had done it again. My article had gained traction on Hacker News, so my website&#x20

The end of Netflix’s 25-year policy of one level for all software engineers. What are these levels, and how do people feel about the change?

Sometimes software pretends to be other software.

At long last revealed.

Software culture and the abuse of data

I opened the draft, moved to its index, searched for the word lambda at that page, and proceeded to successive matches until, at the 5th match, I found Bond James Bond, [expr.prim.lambda.capture] ...