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programming, software architecture, design, user-experience
10 September 2009
Network Disasters Happen in
Threes
Fours
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Only 9 more sleeps to go... Strike 1 : Last week, disaster struck in the form of a 2-day DSL outage. Telkom -- my current DSL provider --...
27 May 2009
Word processors
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If Word Processors are to Words as Food Processors are to Food.... no wonder they're so bloody awful to use!
15 May 2009
Backups
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Nice story on /. this morning about a faulty backup strategy gone wrong and its consequences. I'll bet a lot of smalltime operators ar...
14 May 2009
MikroBlog Brainstorm, Part One
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Part one of a wiki-essay on "Thinking about a new/different way of doing blogging... and about what blogging is all about... " O...
28 April 2009
Code as Exploration of Unknown Territory
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I have come to view coding as the act of exploring and charting unknown territory -- the wilderness of our cognitive space. If we let it, ...
21 April 2009
Sun and Oracle
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TL;DR: A fucking disaster for everybody except Oracle and Sun's execs and (maybe) shareholders. i.e. The Kakistocracy wins and the rest...
13 April 2009
Twitter
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Twitter looks vaguely interesting. Not too much. Not enough for me to bother with it. I think it's very Flavour Of The Day. But it does...
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