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Perhaps you don't enjoy working for a software engineering organization . When the organization is concerned about methodology as opposed to getting the result, that can be a probl…

Believe it or not, UNIX isn't quite dead yet -- it's just resting. In certain embedded environments, we use things like what was once called BSD/386. WindRiver took a UNIX and work…

Draw.io can get by, but for sequence diagrams, there's little better than WebSequenceDiagrams.com or in a pinch, LucidCharts.

Well, it's probably too late for me at 58, but when I grow up, I want to follow early Apple's best slogan ever -- Making Wheels for the Mind. That's what engineers do if we can -- …

My fault.... One thing I would suggest -- this is cool, but can we move away from Qt and move to NCurses? This is useful because it means I can use this over SSH.

Let's step back a bit and not ask about the mechanics. Twitter was, and, so far as I'm concerned, the nervous system of the Internet. It's main strength is saying "Hey, you were in…

I found this via Hackernews, and at first, I was just amused. Then I tried it. OK, it's 75% of the Wordstar I reemember, and that's cool and I wish the author gave us a way to supp…

I'm not sure any language, book, class etc. creates the empowerment. I work in several languages and frameworks, and I don't feel any more powerful than when I was working with Uni…