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- PHP is 30
8 June 2025 - Mental models: essential versus accidental complexity
7 December 2024 - 30 years of cybercafés
1 September 2024 - Requests for comments
10 April 2024 - Gmail is 20
1 April 2024 - Mental models: software attributes
4 January 2024 - Rethinking REST
24 May 2021 - Should we rebrand JavaScript?
14 October 2019 - CentOS vs Ubuntu
9 September 2017 (republished) - Hello, world
5 August 2019