Tim Owensby

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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  1. Forty Years of Revolutions

    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…

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