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totext.py - Convert URL or RSS feed to text with readability - Raymii.org https://raymii.org/s/software/totext.py-Convert_URL_or_RSS_feed_to_plaintext_with_readability.html

CS programs encourage the idea (already common among students) that software engineers are professionals. First contact with the industry demonstrates that to the extent that folks have grown since graduation, its in their ability to delay the inevitable collapse of ugly hacks.

Why does software suck? Capitalism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483230

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html

Geoff Greer’s site: Software Rot https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/02/28/software-rot/

A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.

The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on-the-free-labor-of-open-source-developers-is-that-sustainable

Vocabulary - software-crisis https://softwarecrisis.miraheze.org/wiki/Vocabulary

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source | Linux Journal https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source

Declarative Programming Pros And Cons | Toptal https://www.toptal.com/software/declarative-programming

GitHub - joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory: Queueing theory: an introduction for software development https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing_theory

When Good Engineers Write Bad Software - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/when-good-engineers-write-bad-software

Cleanroom Software Engineering | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cleanroom-software-engineering/184405405

Towards a theory of software development expertise | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/12/21/towards-a-theory-of-software-development-expertise/

Free software and the revolt against transactionality https://medium.com/@/free-software-and-the-revolt-against-transactionality-3a44a1b7f96d?source=friends_link&sk=dcc51b815d020b5fb50852ed6844922a

Distributed Operating System Amoeba - Fireball Software http://fsd-amoeba.sourceforge.net/

The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software — Dawid Ciężarkiewicz aka dpc https://dpc.pw/the-faster-you-unlearn-oop-the-better-for-you-and-your-software

Slow Software https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

COLA (software architecture) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)

GitHub - uliwitness/Stacksmith: An intuitive software erector kit targeted at people new to programming, but with enough potential to stay useful once they’ve learned, inspired by HyperCard. https://github.com/uliwitness/stacksmith/

Folklore.org: Desk Ornaments http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

DigiBarn Software: Xerox Alto Operating System and Alto Applications http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/alto/index.html

Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer · Ana Ulin https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/

Periodic reminder that Apple is a predatory rent-seeking company that hasn’t done anything innovative since 1980: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair

RE: Software disenchantment - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/09/re-software-disenchantment/

Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages

Another fun day of loading data for this software pilot. It’s fun just watching data load.

Software Rot and Classes of Rot Resistance · InductiveComputerScience/progsbase Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/InductiveComputerScience/progsbase/wiki/Software-Rot-and-Classes-of-Rot-Resistance

Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions

Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers | Minifesto.org http://minifesto.org/

W O R D S https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/regarding-software.html

I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.

This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

Pet peeve: the 6+ news outlets that titled their coverage of OXU in 2014 as ‘Software project gets release after 54 years’ as though there wasn’t a release in 1999, another in 2007, one in 2014, and one in 2016 (and this is just the translit & just the stuff you can download now)

Penti Chorded Keyboard https://software-lab.de/penti.html

We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail

Software only becomes ‘enterprise grade’ if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.

The Shape of Code » Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/05/21/premium-mediocrity-is-software-engineerings-demographic/

When I say ‘luckily software has nothing to do with business’, what I mean is that software is uniquely positioned, compared to all other engineering, to be free of economies of scale: it is cheap to develop and has near zero cost of reproduction.

Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw

Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/861

Software utopianism in a flawed universe – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/software-utopianism-in-a-flawed-universe-20dd51cad195

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duf… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k