Microservices Failures
Much has already been said and bally-hoo'd about what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and extremely quick loss of almost 75% of the
Software
Laundering Code with Github Copilot
As the article concludes, "is this AI that generates code, or AI that searches the web for open source code that might be suitable?" Not
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
To many folks, Excel is their operating system. It's not just spreadsheet software, but data collection, analysis, visualization, reporting, and processing. But the software – designed
Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
Interesting from the perspective of error-handling and cloud-services as fundamental communications infrastructure:
If I intentionally set out to build a horrible user experience I’m
A new way to think about your favorite game’s code
It’s surprisingly hard to archive a video game. Cartridges decay, eventually; discs become unreadable as their plastic degrades. Source codes are lost to corporate
Breaking Changes & API Degradation
See also this discussion components versus tools on hacker news:
Hinges - like everything else on CarpentryHub - are either in a state of permanent
Error Handling is Hard
I’d like to do a deep dive into some different ways of handling errors across programming languages, but this so far is the best
Forced Updates, Microsoft Edition
I stepped away from my computer for dinner, halfway through writing a story for The Verge. When I got back, I couldn’t believe my
A History of SABRE Airline Software
The trajectory of air travel changed after a chance meeting between the president of American Airlines, and an IBM salesman — on an American flight.
IBM,
Fixing a Bug In Detecting Nuclear Explosions
This is the story of how I fixed a long-standing bug in one of the U.S.’s systems for detecting nuclear explosions, the ARDU
SAP project costs cited in jeweler’s bankruptcy filing
This one is back from 2009 and not entirelty a bug, but still relevant and came in up conversation recently (I’m working with a