Write Your Own Build Scripts
Build tool complexity has gotten out of control. A 50-line shell script often does the job better than any framework....
Programming Before Google: When You Read Manuals
Programming in the pre-internet era meant libraries, magazines, and BBSs....
Code Review Is Broken
Code review as practiced by most teams is a bottleneck that provides less value than we pretend. Small PRs, distributed reviewing, and time SLAs can fix it....
My First Computer
1977 was the year everything started. The Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET created personal computing....
Debugging Before Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow launched in 2008. For the first thirty years of my career, 'Google the error message' wasn't an option....