Blog Posts

To do: Create an archive copy of every link in case the originals disappear.

Ted Unangst - out with the old, in with the less

 * http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-less

D. J. Bernstein - Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0
Architect systems so that most functions are untrusted. Minimize volume of code providing those functions. Minimize bug rate in that code My prediction: We will have invulnerable software systems, with no bugs in trusted code. We will be confident that these systems enforce the user’s security requirements


 * https://cr.yp.to/talks/2007.11.02/slides.pdf

Ryan Dahl - I hate almost all software.
There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. When that happens all of this shit will be trashed. We can flush boost and glib and autoconf down the toilet and never think of them again.


 * http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html
 * http://archive.is/hWeGB

Danny Tuppeny - Have Software Developers Given Up?
Over the last few years it feels like the quality of software and services across the industry is falling rather than climbing. Everything is always beta (both in name and quality). Things are shipped when marketing wants them to rather than when they’re ready because “we can easily patch them”. End users have basically become testers, but it’s ok, because this is Agile.


 * http://blog.dantup.com/2016/04/have-software-developers-given-up/
 * http://archive.is/kcnlr

Programming Sucks - Still Drinking
the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone. Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses.


 * http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
 * http://archive.is/XfxE3
 * Dramatic Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MticYPfFRp8

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer

 * http://blog.smartbear.com/careers/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-super-productive-programmer/

Justin Jackson - I'm a fucking webmaster
it was simple, but it was focused. No distractions, just: what idea are you trying to express?


 * https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/
 * http://archive.is/ac1LA

Adam Landley - Cleaning up the toybox code
Advice on crunching your C code down til it's tiny.


 * http://landley.net/toybox/cleanup.html

Dadgum - Death of a Language Dilettante

 * http://prog21.dadgum.com/219.html
 * http://archive.is/86u8h

Dadgum - Death of a Language Dilettante
Contains a bug density by language chart.


 * https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-shocking-secret-about-static-types-514d39bf30a3#.j22lakbpc
 * http://archive.is/IeURl

People that tweet about things being broken
Why do I continue to toot about all computers failing regularly? Because most of us disbelieve it. It'll never work if we believe it works.


 * https://twitter.com/garybernhardt

technically everything is user error.

expecting this shit stack to work?

user error.


 * https://twitter.com/sadserver

DELETE ALL SOFTWARE IT WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE


 * https://twitter.com/PHP_CEO/status/663724239837642753