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Notes from the workshop

Occasional writing about software, work, and whatever else seems worth writing down.

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The Day After You Buy the Software

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…

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A Mirror, Not a Backup

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…

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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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