All articles by Adrian Kosmaczewski unless indicated otherwise.
Issue 077: C++ – February 2025
Issue 076: Chess – January 2025
Issue 075: Teaching Programming – December 2024
Issue 074: Lotus – November 2024
Issue 073: Floating-Point Arithmetic – October 2024
Issue 072: Assholes – September 2024
Issue 071: Go – August 2024
Issue 070: DOS – July 2024
Issue 069: Architecture – June 2024
Issue 068: Design – May 2024
Issue 067: Text Editors – April 2024
Issue 066: Version Control – March 2024
Issue 065: Pascal – February 2024
Issue 064: Retrocomputing – January 2024
Issue 063: Space – December 2023
Issue 062: IBM – November 2023
Issue 061: Databases – October 2023
Issue 060: Perspectives – September 2023
Issue 059: BASIC – August 2023
Issue 058: Community – July 2023
Issue 057: Dress Code – June 2023
Issue 056: Operating Systems – May 2023
Issue 055: Mathematics – April 2023
Issue 054: Google – March 2023
Issue 053: Gaming – February 2023
Issue 052: The World Wide Web – January 2023
Issue 051: Freelancing – December 2022
Issue 050: Humor – November 2022
Issue 049: Object-Oriented Programming – October 2022
Issue 048: Evolution – September 2022
Issue 047: Rust – August 2022
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- The Double Denim Of Software Engineering by Graham Lee
- The State Of Rust In 2022
- Michael Feathers by Graham Lee
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Issue 046: Computer Museums – July 2022
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- (Computer) Museums In Switzerland
- The Digital Dark Ages by Graham Lee
- William Aspray
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Issue 045: Requirements – June 2022
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- The Other Side Of The Card by Graham Lee
- On Agile Requirements
- Workers Of The (Digital) World by Graham Lee
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Issue 044: Mobile – May 2022
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- The Law Of Diminishing Returns
- On The Duopoly Of Mobile by Graham Lee
- Erica Sadun
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Issue 043: Types – April 2022
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- It Is Not The Types That Will Help You by Graham Lee
- Apples And Oranges
- Janet Abbate by Graham Lee
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Issue 042: Trade Unions – March 2022
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- Divide Et Impera
- We Deserve Better. Collectively, We Can Get It. by Graham Lee
- Mar Hicks
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Issue 041: Licensing – February 2022
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- Fitness For Purpose by Graham Lee
- The Conquest Of Code
- Richard Matthew Stallman by Graham Lee
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Issue 040: Skeuomorphism – January 2022
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- The Button And The Spoon
- We Cannot Afford To Live Without It by Graham Lee
- Jenifer Tidwell
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Issue 039: Methodology – December 2021
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- Methodologies: The Next Two Decades by Graham Lee
- You Are Doing It Wrong
- The Three Amigos, Among Others by Graham Lee
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Issue 038: Design by Contract – November 2021
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- Assertions
- How To Reason About Mutable State by Graham Lee
- Robert L. Glass
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Issue 037: Microsoft – October 2021
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- Putting The $ In Micro$oft by Graham Lee
- Where Does Microsoft Want To Go Today?
- Microsoft's Writings On Security by Graham Lee
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Issue 036: Innovation – September 2021
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- InnovationScript
- Innovation To What End? by Graham Lee
- Douglas Crockford
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Issue 035: Python – August 2021
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- Majoring In Versions by Graham Lee
- The State Of Python In 2021
- Tim Peters by Graham Lee
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Issue 034: Job Market – July 2021
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- Corals And Sharks
- Do Not Ask Me About How Interviewing Works by Graham Lee
- Chad Fowler
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Issue 033: Management – June 2021
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- On The Absence Of Management by Graham Lee
- The Impossible Dialogue
- Camille Fournier by Graham Lee
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Issue 032: Modernism – May 2021
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- The Great Rewriting In Rust
- Plus Ça Change… by Graham Lee
- Eric Sink
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Issue 031: English Language – April 2021
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- The English-Likeness Monster by Graham Lee
- The Winner Takes It All
- Jef Raskin by Graham Lee
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Issue 030: Home Office – March 2021
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- Await! In Async We Trust
- Your Place or Mine? by Graham Lee
- Gerald Weinberg
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Issue 029: Internet of Things – February 2021
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- Internet Of Unusable Things by Graham Lee
- On The Need Of Regulation In The IoT Industry
- Douglas Hofstadter by Graham Lee
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Issue 028: Programming as a Hobby – January 2021
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- Specialization Is For Insects
- ZX2020 by Graham Lee
- Michael Hiltzik
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Issue 027: Networking – December 2020
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- The Network Is The Computer by Graham Lee
- Sniffing Packets
- Steve McConnell by Graham Lee
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Issue 026: Hardware – November 2020
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- Breaking The 3 GHz Barrier
- The Untimely Demise Of Workstations by Graham Lee
- Peter Norton
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Issue 025: Smalltalk – October 2020
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- What Smalltalk Was Not by Graham Lee
- The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Very Incomplete And Certainly Flawed Beginner's Guide To Smalltalk
- Kent Beck by Graham Lee
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Issue 024: Java – September 2020
Issue 023: Academia – August 2020
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- On Research Software Engineering by Graham Lee
- Teacher, Leave This Kid Alone
- Simson L. Garfinkel & Michael K. Mahoney by Graham Lee
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Issue 022: The Cloud – July 2020
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- Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
- Five Computers by Graham Lee
- Brian Kernighan
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Issue 021: Open Source – June 2020
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- Once The Rockets Go Up, Who Cares Where They Come Down? by Graham Lee
- Open Always Wins
- The Community by Graham Lee
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Issue 020: Cycles – May 2020
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- Eternally Finally
- There Ain't Nothin' New Under The Sun by Graham Lee
- Kathy Sierra
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Issue 019: Cross-Platform – April 2020
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- Cross-Platform Is The Platform by Graham Lee
- Dr. Dobbs' And The Deathly Cross-Platform App
- Adele Goldberg by Graham Lee
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Issue 018: Obsolescence – March 2020
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- A Farewell To The Von Neumann Architecture
- The Twenty-Year Computer by Graham Lee
- Jean Sammet
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Issue 017: A Retrospective of the 2010s – February 2020
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- The Rise And Fall Of Mobile by Graham Lee
- The Truce Of Type Inference
- Barbara Liskov by Graham Lee
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Issue 016: DevOps – January 2020
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- Antonomasia
- Play It Again, Sam by Graham Lee
- Bertrand Meyer
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Issue 015: Writing – December 2019
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- Why My Team Writes by Graham Lee
- On The Aversion To Writing
- Brad Cox by Graham Lee
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Issue 014: Minimalism – November 2019
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- Do I Need A Supercomputer? by Graham Lee
- Complex Vs. Complicated
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Issue 013: Programming Languages – October 2019
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- De Programmatica Ipsum Volume 2
- Choosing A Programming Language by Graham Lee
- Memories Of Hello World
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Issue 012: Being a Senior Developer – September 2019
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- At Least by Daniel Steinberg
- Enough Agile by Graham Lee
- Not Being A Developer After 46
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Issue 011: Artificial Intelligence – August 2019
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- From AOP To AI by Adam Jones
- Open Letter To A Future AI
- Artificial Intelligence, Bias, And Opportunity by Graham Lee
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Issue 010: Programming Paradigms – July 2019
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- On The Influence Of Programming Language Paradigms by Guido de Caso
- In Which Thought Is Implied by Graham Lee
- Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM
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Issue 008: Programming History – May 2019
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- A Brief And Painful History Of Programming by Fernando Rodriguez
- History Repeating
- History Is A Fiction by Graham Lee
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Issue 007: Work – April 2019
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- Business As Unusual by Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard
- Learnings From Toxic Abuse by Adrian Tineo
- Finding A Purpose by Graham Lee
- Tales Of The Interview
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Issue 006: Diversity & Inclusion – March 2019
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- Sheree Atcheson On Diversity And Inclusion
- Hiring Diversity (Beta Version) by Julia Cacciapuoti
- Why I Want People To Not Treat Me Differently by Susanna Riccardi
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Issue 005: Ethics – February 2019
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- The Current State Of Ethics In Tech by Agis Tsaraboulidis
- Primum Non Nocere
- What Is To Be Done? by Graham Lee
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Issue 004: Programming, Art or Science? – January 2019
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- The Creativity Of Computing by Carola Nitz
- Why Not Both? by Roland Leth
- The Art Of "The Art Of Computer Programming" by Graham Lee
- A Brief History Of Programming Artists
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Issue 003: Security – December 2018
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- Secure Development Is Dead, Long Live Secure Development by Anastasiia Vixentael
- The Weakest Link
- On Modern Security Culture by Graham Lee
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Issue 002: Quality – November 2018
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- On Some Things Quality Related by Ioana Porcarasu
- The Various Meanings Of Quality by Graham Lee
- The Ipsum Quality Process: 12 Steps To Better Teams
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Issue 001: Hype – October 2018
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- De Programmatica Ipsum – On Programming Itself by Graham Lee
- Mainstream Is The New Hype
- What Is Behind The Hype? by Graham Lee
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