Efficiency vs. Resilience

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)

When Gandhi met Satoshi

Good regulator theorem

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Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview

Of manners and machines

I created the most pretentious way to check if a number is odd. Featuring recursion, philosophy, and a truth table.

Throwing it all away - how extreme rewriting changed the way I build databases

A Philosophy of Software Design

Yagni philosophy is reactionary (2023)

The Right Kind of Stubborn

A Society That Lost Focus

Sources of Accidental Complexity (2014)

complexity as entropy

AI will change the world but not in the way you think

The "broligarchs" don't speak for me

Inventing On Principle (2012)

Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)

Unix Pipeline Philosophy in HTMX + FastHTML Workflows

The Evolution of Agile Imposters: Why We Can't Estimate Our Own Software

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence

Committees Paper

The Sudoku Affair

Can I ethically use LLMs?

Comfortable in uncertainty, with Barry O'Reilly

New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code

Is it okay?

Choosing a browser

Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design

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