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The commercial versions of IDA still do COM and MZ executables as far as I'm aware, although it's been dropped from the free versions since 5. (Which is still available from ScummV…

I'm getting the same sort of vibe from my corners of the Internet: people moving away from the big walled gardens and doing more distributed things like forums and running their ow…

I think there's a very specific form of overengineering afflicting products currently, which I'd classify as "endless revisiting". This is where companies build something which wor…

I think the problem is not necessarily things such as likes, upvotes, shares or other features but platforms which don't consider Goodhart's law when they introduce them. Large Red…

Javascript editors trying to reinvent desktop paradigms but without the 40-odd years of practice and having all the events arrive whenever they feel like is one of the most frequen…

I definitely think ageism is a real problem, and as someone who's happy to hire older developers it's a shock when they talk about their rejection rate compared to what the 20-some…

One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume "oh it's not working, I'l…

At the start of this year I started an experiment; whenever an application distracted me more than once per day with a push notification or toast, it would have its permissions to …

I have a mental image of people setting great store in which platform Douglas Adams has moved to lately, given his tendency to hop between media and delight in the new and interest…