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I seek people who value quality as its own reward. I appreciate those who think that a job well done is not just “nice to have” but a mark of honesty, integrity and the producer’s self-worth. Behind every published word, every implemented design and every piece of running code, there is a body of knowledge, [...]

when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

why the lucky stiff
I won’t deny that Battlestar Galactica and House give me significant pleasure. Surely I would miss them if I stopped watching, but I think a line can be drawn in [...]

A lot of people want to get an awesome job, but most of the advice out there is geared toward joining corporate bureaucracies and saving some repressed human resources manager from a frightful view of reality. Résumé templates, guidance counselors and the corporate ladder have conspired to make your career as boring and reproducible as [...]

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

—Thomas Jefferson
I am a libertarian for two simple reasons with [...]

Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

—Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., “The Mythical Man-Month”
In the old model, large companies built large pieces of software and had to support nearly every user and their myriad edge cases and behaviors. This meant fixing [...]

Today, it was brought to my attention that Maryland’s governor, in an August 24 announcement with General Motors outlined a timetable for the “sustainable” energy future from Sun Edison’s products, which began life back in 2003. The governor helped pass legislation that requires 20 percent of Maryland’s energy portfolio to come from renewable sources of [...]

This is a call for all developers of websites and web applications that have a user authentication system. If I have to register for your site, please don’t make me register again for your forums or customer support app!
It’s fine to use third party software for discussion forums, but it’s important to put forth the [...]

The East Bay is the area on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. The general feeling of the East Bay is very mixed, but overall relaxed. A lot of the bustle of San Francisco is lost across the bridge and there is some stale hippie culture lingering in Berkeley that probably makes its [...]

Great software development is a creative discipline that requires skillful individuals, effective organization and undying passion from all who are involved. There are many theories about developer productivity, engineering management and company organization, but few that make an honest attempt to reconcile all of these factors and present an approach that both builds from proven [...]

I have a great deal of respect for the people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of solutions that help everyone in the world. Notably, Karen Armstrong delivered a speech (found via Chris) at the TED conference this year discussing the current problems with religion in the world. I have tremendous respect for her [...]