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Using computers more freely and safely
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My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated
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Performance excuses debunked
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ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license
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Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
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Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (1996)
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Software horror show: SAP Concur
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My coffee maker just makes coffee
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Software horror show: SAP Concur
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Balancing “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” vs. “Release early and often”
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Writing your own search engine is hard (2004)
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Software Disenchantment (2018)
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Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
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Why Don't You Use
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The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
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Never update anything
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Designing Low Upkeep Software
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Peter Naur's view of programming
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Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)
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The Great Software Stagnation
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Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)
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If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience
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The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community
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Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
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Mistakes were made: ERP screwups
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Software Disenchantment (2018)
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Debuggers Suck
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Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
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Four common mistakes in audio development (2016)
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The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
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Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding internal technology)
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Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure
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Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it
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Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 1: The merge conflict
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Another Week with Bad Software
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Software disenchantment
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The PowerPC 600 series, part 1: Introduction
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On paying for software
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// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista
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Why the Update Fever Is Bad
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Refresh Is Sacred
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Ask a Repair Shop
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What Really Happened with Vista
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Why are hidden files with a leading tilde treated as super-hidden?
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Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
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The world needs a better spreadsheet
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Four common mistakes in audio development
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Why Big Companies Can't Innovate
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Have Software Developers Given Up?
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When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
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Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”?
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Why did Facebook decide to shut down Parse?
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Probability of GUID collisions with different versions
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Software bloat makes me sad
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Why did Borland fail?
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Why, after a year with Adobe EchoSign, I’m taking my business elsewhere
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“Not invented here” syndrome is not unique to the IT world (2013)
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Java Doesn’t Suck
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Making Fast-Paced Multiplayer Networked Games Is Hard
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An Unreal Decision
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“They Have No Use for Someone Who Looks and Dresses Like Me”
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Why I Left the .NET Framework
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Software eats software development
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“The real problems are with the back end of the software”
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Why Care About 30,000 Notes?
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Of Wizards and Magical Machines (2012)
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My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why
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Enterprise
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Casual users need as good a computer as possible, proficient users can make do
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Apple's no internal client syndrome
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Paying Users Are Your Nicest Users
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.NET: So long and thanks for all the fish
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Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey
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The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer
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Coding tricks I learnt at Apple
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Great Unsolved Problem In Computer Science
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Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart
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Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does
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A bad design is a good reminder
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Goodbye, Google App Engine
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I’m done building Facebook apps for clients
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Why your Android app doesn't need an exit button
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What Not To Build
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Why I'm Moving From Desktop Apps to Web Apps
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
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Never Update Anything
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Random Thoughts about Unity
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Software possession for personal use
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