Paul Ford: What is Code?
Humorous yet very informative
The Great Works of Software
Web Design – The First 100 Years
When I’m Gone
Death is always a surprise. No one expects it. Not even terminal patients think they are going to die in a day or two. In a week, maybe.
Doing Terrible Things To Your Code
Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention
What is needed is an effective property-rights regime that gives individuals the right to control where we direct our attention, and thereby bring the market price of this modern commodity in line with its true market value. Advertisers should pay us, not third parties.
Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention
Stock Options? Don’t Need ‘Em! I’m Coding For Uncle Sam!
In newly released figures, the government says that constructing the original enrollment system, known as the Federally Facilitated Marketplace operating system, cost $200 million and would have required $70 million a year to maintain. The new version of the site, revamped by USDS engineers from Google, Y Combinator startups and other commercial tech outposts, cost $4 million to produce, with annual maintenance costs also $4 million.
Max Beatty 