Thoughts

Occasional essays on the craft of software engineering, the state of the art, its history, and future.

• Reverse interviews
  24 June 2026
• The Mythical Man-Month at 50
  28 December 2025
• The (software) quality without a name
  5 October 2025
• 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