Consultant and full-stack software developer, forty years in.
I write software that businesses use for a long time, and this is where I write down what that taught me: the design decisions, the trade-offs, the occasional dead end, and the economics of keeping software alive for decades instead of quarters.
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We’ve all been there. The demo was convincing, the contract is signed and filed away, the invoices have been paid, and the new system is finally installed and running. Then you sit down to do the…
What if you wake up tomorrow morning and your Mac won’t boot? The projects you’re in the middle of, the folders that run your work, all of it sits on one dead machine. Time…
I’ve been writing software for money since 1983, and five or six times now I’ve been told the job was about to change forever. 4GLs were going to let you describe what you…