Don’t document software! (If you want to avoid pain!) ⌘
Hiring: Staff software engineer at quizlet #denver ⌘ https://golang.cafe/job/staff-software-engineer-quizlet-1590087925
Go is Boring…And That’s Fantastic! ⌘ https://www.capitalone.com/tech/software-engineering/go-is-boring
Hiring: Senior Backend Software Engineer at Fast #sf ⌘ https://jobs.lever.co/fast/f741551c-b2cb-4e94-a717-f9f084be8b6d
Hiring: Senior Software Engineer at Invision ⌘ https://boards.greenhouse.io/invision/jobs/2168713
Hiring: Senior software engineer at Cantabular #remote ⌘ https://medium.com/@SensibleCode/job-senior-software-engineer-golang-or-c-c-desirable-191aad29bf47
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — Goodhart’s law as phrased by Marilyn Strathern The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014) | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: My Software https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/16/software.html #software #technology #meta
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Colagioia Industries https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/02/ci.html #software #technology #meta
@mdosch@mdosch.de Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.)
The #XMPP Newsletter is out! Read the latest news from the XMPP/Jabber communities: articles, events, software releases with servers, clients/apps, and services… https://xmpp.org/2019/10/newsletter-01-october/ #social #instantmessaging #chat
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/
PstViewer Pro 8.0.786 software update is released. ⌘ Read more…
@sdk@codevoid.de Thanx for the link. I will try this. So far I always used fgallery: https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/fgallery/
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/