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recent bookmarks from andrewduckerHow Hugo ballots used to be counted2024-03-05T09:51:15+00:00
https://calimac.dreamwidth.org/1244139.html
andrewduckersoftware hugo awardshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7c149d483c6a/Fujitsu knew from ‘very early stage’ about flaws in Horizon system2024-01-17T11:19:50+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/fujitsu-knew-horizon-flaws-boss-2857694
andrewduckerpostoffices software OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:498c87f48e44/New Jersey police bought software to predict crimes. It was wrong 99% of the time.2023-10-02T14:24:24+00:00
https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes
andrewduckerepicfail predictions crime police softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f5a63550c56d/What's going on with the changes in the Unity game engine's pricing2023-09-15T09:57:19+00:00
https://nitter.net/tkexpress11/status/1702054746411221386
andrewduckergames business softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b7cd49149d09/Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster2023-08-15T21:05:49+00:00
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/07/1074184/google-deepmind-game-ai-alphadev-algorithm-code-faster/?fbclid=IwAR1K2A1QFQs7gcZ56g_fD6XCcWr4Plt46G3eXHhExqqE3zDs-XWYZCZ2Gck
andrewduckerai coding softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:52ae009b27f6/The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code2023-05-18T10:49:53+00:00
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/
andrewduckereurope security softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:640cf9b854a2/Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?2023-04-12T07:28:07+00:00
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=503
andrewduckersoftware uxhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b04b80543154/Maintenance of FORM, the 1980s software that’s used for the particle physics' hardest calculations, rests almost entirely with one septuagenarian physicist.2023-01-02T00:31:17+00:00
https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/
andrewduckerphysics software Doomhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a6c891de168a/Software horror show: SAP Concur2022-12-04T20:45:49+00:00
https://blog.plover.com/2022/12/04/#crap-warning-signs-2
andrewduckersoftware ux epicfailhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6f899454e6ab/There is no “software supply chain"2022-09-27T13:29:17+00:00
https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/
andrewduckersoftware quality securityhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7f7bd6efc487/Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women2022-09-18T08:56:05+00:00
https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/
andrewduckergender bias softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a6457ef0a3bb/Quality Is Systemic2022-09-15T09:57:40+00:00
https://jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/
andrewduckersoftware systems organisation qualityhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6820151e50a1/As a senior developer I've had many days like this2022-07-05T18:50:26+00:00
https://twitter.com/manekinekko/status/1544038822274629643?t=gKqzS8584mzDsrvaSv9kRw&s=09
andrewduckerdevelopment software work computershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:59f5680ca69d/Interactive Modeling Software Designs Intricate Japanese Wood Joinery2022-02-24T14:22:29+00:00
https://mymodernmet.com/tsugite-japanese-wood-joinery-software/
andrewduckerjapan wood craftwork design softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4720284bef85/The internet (and many large companies) are dependent on software maintained by people in their spare time, for free. This may not be sustainable2021-12-11T20:27:51+00:00
https://christine.website/blog/open-source-broken-2021-12-11
andrewduckersoftware opensource securityhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:26331a05cd53/The Seven Circles of Developer Hell2021-11-18T20:45:25+00:00
https://toggl.com/blog/seven-levels-developer-hell
andrewduckersoftware development comichttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:25d594c50434/How to Report Bugs Effectively2021-10-24T15:52:49+00:00
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
andrewduckerbugs software advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9fd3232d251a/The value of in-house expertise2021-10-04T10:28:41+00:00
https://danluu.com/in-house/
andrewduckersoftware experience experts businesshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:192c371d36da/Software Piracy Triggers Innovation2021-09-03T17:05:44+00:00
https://torrentfreak.com/software-piracy-triggers-innovation-research-finds-210902/
andrewduckersoftware piracy innovationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9f89d2cee236/Software development culture done right2021-08-16T12:13:32+00:00
https://twitter.com/aboodman/status/1427137725119959046
andrewduckersoftware development working_hourshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6ee12dd2b3b1/Game developers break silence around salaries2021-05-10T19:41:29+00:00
https://www.axios.com/salaries-game-developers-break-silence-8f03c4aa-216e-4043-80dc-0376c606b926.html
andrewduckergames salary softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cb3ecb64cd3f/How often do people actually copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?2021-04-19T19:39:20+00:00
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/
andrewduckersoftware programminghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d57eba98aa96/This is my new favourite software license2021-03-31T15:57:39+00:00
https://github.com/scanlime/bandsocks/blob/master/LICENSE.md
andrewduckersoftware intellectual_property funnyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:deef94478d1b/10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore2021-02-26T20:49:30+00:00
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/software-engineering-laws.html
andrewduckersoftware designhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b481031827b3/If you've ever wondered what it's like supporting ancient code in a big company...2021-02-19T22:21:15+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/lngjox/more_than_death_room_concept_aint_it/go0fbz9?context=3
andrewduckersoftware funny OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f92ead8eef57/The way we produce computers (and phones, printers, cameras, and anything else with a chip in it) is insecure and dangerous. Is regulation now necessary?2021-02-03T16:28:33+00:00
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2021-02/iot.html
andrewduckerregulation hardware software securityhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1aa2c35eaee1/Asking engineers what they think of software engineering2021-01-19T08:52:57+00:00
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/are-we-really-engineers/
andrewduckersoftwareengineering software engineering society regulation history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6ca3258a47e7/null: or how to break software for fun and profit2021-01-14T09:02:17+00:00
https://popey.com/blog/2021/01/null/
andrewduckersoftware testinghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fbc868cd300f/"10 Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years"2020-11-21T20:14:11+00:00
https://alexlakatos.com/coding/2020/11/17/ten-things-learned-ten-years-developer/
andrewduckersoftware work communicationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b92cc20a361b/Brexit border software developers warn it will not be ready in time2020-10-27T20:16:09+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54706263
andrewduckertrade UK Europe Doom softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b9a2a3bb1543/Software that changes photos of you so that your friends will still recognise you but facial recognition won't2020-07-29T20:22:44+00:00
http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/
andrewduckerfaces software recognitionhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:966822a73335/Airbreak - jailbreaking CPAP machines to turn them into ventilators2020-04-15T13:32:19+00:00
https://airbreak.dev/
andrewduckersoftware medicine hacking impressive pandemichttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:267791feeb50/Boeing patched a software bug 2 hours before their spaceship reentered the atmosphere2020-02-07T10:02:03+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/
andrewduckersoftware bug spaceflighthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0907fe14070c/Welcome to the Bullshit Economy2020-02-06T03:22:01+00:00
https://prospect.org/politics/bullshit-economy-iowa-caucus-disaster/
andrewduckerfraud software business politics viaNancyLebovhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1a0f7e626e2d/What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn?2020-02-05T09:46:06+00:00
https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/
andrewduckerbusiness organisation softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2326dcffa916/C Is Not a Low-level Language2020-01-16T14:43:26+00:00
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
andrewduckerprogramming computers hardware software designhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7187a5249b85/The number one predictor of software bugs is organisational complexity2019-12-17T09:56:43+00:00
https://augustl.com/blog/2019/microsoft_predicts_software_bugs/
andrewduckersoftware bug organisation programminghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:251bcf619070/"A 497TB Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers"2019-12-15T10:00:01+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_account_gave_me_stomach_ulcers/
andrewduckersoftware epicfail wtf dropboxhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1d5cef00e011/Hacker Laws: Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful2019-11-22T09:56:21+00:00
https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws
andrewduckerdevelopment software advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8fd55435f7cb/Surviving Software Dependencies2019-11-01T10:10:40+00:00
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3344149
andrewduckersoftware design softwareengineeringhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4c6316625ffe/The 33 most historically important pieces of coding history2019-10-19T14:37:02+00:00
https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
andrewduckerhistory software computershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2cc5f79a11ee/Why enterprise software is like baby clothing2019-10-12T08:37:11+00:00
https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776?s=09
andrewduckersoftware business clothing babieshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8adeaf8d66ae/What organisational structures allow DevOps to flourish (or doom it)2019-09-28T19:06:35+00:00
https://web.devopstopologies.com/
andrewduckerdevelopment software organisation support viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c9b6b42f0022/The Internet Relies on People Working for Free2019-09-17T14:11:10+00:00
https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc
andrewduckersoftware money business internethttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5f6eb4cb2d22/What The Code of Hammurabi Can Teach Us About Hardware and Software Liability2019-08-25T12:38:57+00:00
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/what-the-code-of-hammurabi-can-teach-us-about-hardware-and-software-liability/
andrewduckerresponsibility history software viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fcd6a21f22fd/If software is annoyingly slow people don't use it. That could kill someone2019-08-19T16:14:15+00:00
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/
andrewduckerhealthcare emergency software design time uxhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3c3fade2ccee/Best Practices for Code Review2019-08-13T09:09:32+00:00
https://smartbear.com/learn/code-review/best-practices-for-peer-code-review/
andrewduckersoftware developmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c124b6c0ee23/Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers2019-06-29T12:33:42+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers
andrewduckerengineering design software outsourcing airplaneshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a846d5eb4083/Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model2019-04-16T09:28:32+00:00
https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html
andrewduckerestimating software projectmanagement statisticshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8e4278fd1f82/Storing time data as UTC is not a silver bullet (wish I'd read this last time I'd written something with dates in it)2019-03-27T13:34:52+00:00
https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/
andrewduckerdate calendars software datahttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:168f36ec0dbd/In case anyone is wondering why the petition site went down, here's one of the developers2019-03-22T08:01:47+00:00
https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108673644660699136?s=09
andrewduckersoftware petition fail ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b84239397484/Famous laws of Software development2019-02-28T09:51:01+00:00
https://www.timsommer.be/famous-laws-of-software-development/
andrewduckersoftware developmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cc9ea250edae/About an eighth of software developers work remotely2019-02-14T23:32:25+00:00
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/22/remote-work-2017-developer-survey/
andrewduckersoftware remote workhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:eff3377c5f77/Things Junior Developers/Engineers need to learn2019-01-03T20:37:41+00:00
https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev/status/1080455811048984576?s=09
andrewduckersoftware advice developmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d4f25ab2a5cd/Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers2018-12-28T16:44:46+00:00
https://www.cake.co/conversations/w3j7jDp/that-time-steve-jobs-hired-a-career-juggler-to-teach-programming-to-developers
andrewduckersoftware learning apple pixarhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:aad9b835c2be/A History of Waterfall Software Development2018-12-14T09:51:40+00:00
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html
andrewduckersoftware development history viaFanfhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5081576994e0/Life is like the worst maintained software project ever2018-09-06T07:05:23+00:00
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1037031222164082688?s=09
andrewduckersoftware design evolutionhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6d0c1c0703b7/Reboot Your Aeroplane Every 248 Days To Avoid Crashes2018-09-04T11:10:05+00:00
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/8548-reboot-your-dreamliner-every-248-days-to-avoid-integer-overflow.html
andrewduckerairplanes software OhForFucksSakehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:587e5b70497f/Notes on "A Philosophy of Software Design."2018-09-04T09:27:42+00:00
https://lethain.com//notes-philosophy-software-design/
andrewduckerdesign softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7ad1200eb2f8/The war over supercooled water (and why researchers need to release their code)2018-08-23T10:55:22+00:00
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20180822a/full/
andrewduckersoftware physics simulation fail researchhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:38b1575551eb/This is precisely how I feel about voting software2018-08-09T16:46:35+00:00
https://xkcd.com/2030/
andrewduckervoting software doom comic xkcdhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:293a1fb5f523/Looking at Test Driven Developmen: An Academic Survey2018-07-19T09:52:25+00:00
https://www.tedmyoung.com/looking-at-tdd-an-academic-survey/
andrewduckerresearch testing development softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fa010db77d14/In the wake of the ArenaNet firings, women game devs are experiencing a new wave of online harassment2018-07-14T12:02:47+00:00
https://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2018-07-13-in-the-wake-of-the-arenanet-firings-women-game-devs-are-experiencing-a-new-wave-of-online-harassment?__twitter_impression=true
andrewduckergames software harassment womenhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b82b3de7a1fd/The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions (by going agile)2018-07-07T10:00:01+00:00
https://www.fastcompany.com/40588729/the-air-force-learned-to-code-and-saved-the-pentagon-millions
andrewduckermoney software development agile militaryhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:93ec258a4a71/OnePlus Software Maintenance Schedule2018-06-29T21:28:40+00:00
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/oneplus-software-maintenance-schedule.862347/
andrewduckerphones security softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0e4764fe71dc/The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace2018-06-20T14:43:58+00:00
https://medium.com/feature-creep/the-software-engineer-s-guide-to-asserting-office-dominance-ddea7b598df7
andrewduckersatire funny work softwarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3518112bf088/Software archaeology: Developing World of Warcraft Classic2018-06-17T13:55:15+00:00
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21881587/dev-watercooler-world-of-warcraft-classic
andrewduckerWorldOfWarcraft software datahttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0210a64e0137/What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written?2018-05-21T09:52:17+00:00
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-code-ever-written/answer/John-Byrd-2
andrewduckersoftware nuclearweapons viaSwampershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d1c3ab5d47ba/This is the very opposite of my experience with Scrum/Agile. Comes across as both needy and arrogant, and I'd hate to have to work with the person who wrote it.2018-05-19T12:50:41+00:00
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/
andrewduckerdevelopment software agile programminghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:db4bdea82f7d/When you're asked to write software to help kill people2018-05-16T08:51:33+00:00
https://www.calebthompson.io/talks/dont-get-distracted/
andrewduckermilitary software ethicshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5a771e4d3de4/