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The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.

The inner-platform effect is the tendency of software architects to create a system so customizable as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development platform they are using. This is generally inefficient and such systems are often considered to be examples of an anti-pattern.

tl;dr – ‘Money Flows Rule Everything Around Me’ When talking about IT transformation, we often we often talk about ‘culture’ being the problem in making change, but wh…

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

We human beings suffer from a persistent illusion that creates a huge amount of needless stress: we see today as much bigger and more significant than other days. It seems like we should. Today is the only day we're able to actually do anything, and the only day we can experience the consequences of what we've already done. In that sense, today

We can't make ourselves stop thinking, but we can stop our thoughts from fooling us.

Adam Drake is an advisor to scale-up tech companies. He writes about ML/AI/crypto/data, leadership, and building tech teams.

The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.

Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.

#1: Don't Be a Jerk. (That is just a bonus tip, in case you don't want to read past the subtitle)

Alan Kay — “father of personal computers" — is best known for his work on personal computing and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.

The critical resource is not *developer time*, it's *developer energy*

TL;MDWR In this post I’ll talk about the implementation of the coroutine system in x64 asm for a game I’m writing. (Disclaimer: I’m very new at x64 assembly programming, so I may be doing some very stupid things) Background I’ve had this idea for a while of a programmable game. I’m not gonna go into details for now but the main idea is a Real-time strategy game (RTS) where you can program every unit.