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/
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
Google sponsors Linux. The Linux Foundation claims that that’s because Google loves free software. Google also continues to publish new Closed Source software. I claim that that’s because the Linux Foundation is dumb.
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
Greg Young - The art of destroying software on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/108441214
As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
AdBlock Adds Feature to Cache … https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/adblock-adds-feature-to-cache-popular-javascript-libraries/
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
Dissecting Software Component‘s Reproductive System - 250bpm http://250bpm.com/blog:51
GitHub - s-macke/SAM: Software Automatic Mouth - Tiny Speech Synthesizer https://github.com/s-macke/SAM
Semi-autonomous software agents: A personal perspective. - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/08/semi-autonomous-software-agents-personal-perspective/
These glasses trick facial recognition software into thinking you‘re someone else - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recognition-glasses-trick-impersonate-fool
Clocks for Software Engineers http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/09/18/clocks-for-sw-engineers.html
Software is a Long Con – emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/14/software-is-a-long-con/
GitHub - mr-mig/every-programmer-should-know: A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know https://github.com/mr-mig/every-programmer-should-know
CCC | Software to capture votes in upcoming national election is insecure ⌘ https://ccc.de/en/updates/2017/pc-wahl
Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/ibm_1960s_story_writing_software/?mt=1504125155672