All articles by Adrian Kosmaczewski unless indicated otherwise.

Issue 072: Assholes – September 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Insane Cult Of The Asshole
• Donnie Berkholz
• Robert Sutton

Issue 071: Go – August 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Age Of Concurrency
• Rob Pike
• Sir Tony Hoare

Issue 070: DOS – July 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• A Requiem For DOS
• Gary Kildall
• Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia

Issue 069: Architecture – June 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• Goodness Gracious, Great Balls Of Mud!
• Dylan Beattie
• Amy Brown & Greg Wilson

Issue 068: Design – May 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Impossible Dialogue, Revisited
• Gary Hustwit
• David Kadavy

Issue 067: Text Editors – April 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• For Lack Of A Better Word
• Fireship
• Charles Petzold

Issue 066: Version Control – March 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• Twenty Years Is Nothing
• Linus Torvalds
• Travis Swicegood

Issue 065: Pascal – February 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• "Lazarus, Come Forth!"
• Niklaus Wirth
• Edward Nash Yourdon

Issue 064: Retrocomputing – January 2024 – PDF

• Introduction
• Return to Innocence
• Stewart Cheifet
• Alex Wiltshire & John Short

Issue 063: Space – December 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Rocket Science
• Margaret Hamilton
• Carl Sagan

Issue 062: IBM – November 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Think
• Jim Henson
• James Cortada, Emerson Pugh, & Louis Gerstner Jr.

Issue 061: Databases – October 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Elephant In The Room
• Michael Stonebraker
• Christopher J. Date

Issue 060: Perspectives – September 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• By All Means
• Bertrand Russell
• Jens Müller & Julius Wiedemann

Issue 059: BASIC – August 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Programming The Liberal Arts
• Dartmouth College
• Mark Jones Lorenzo

Issue 058: Community – July 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Tragedy Of The Common Enemy
• Guy Kawasaki
• Nadia Asparouhova

Issue 057: Dress Code – June 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Tenue Correcte Exigée
• Mayuko Inoue
• Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

Issue 056: Operating Systems – May 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
• Ken Ross & Paul Laughton
• Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, & Greg Gagne

Issue 055: Mathematics – April 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• In Praise Of Mathematics
• Nemean
• Guillermo Martínez & Gustavo Piñeiro

Issue 054: Google – March 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Feeling Lucky
• Google TechTalks
• John MacCormick

Issue 053: Gaming – February 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• Insert Coin
• John Romero
• Books About Game Design And Development

Issue 052: The World Wide Web – January 2023 – PDF

• Introduction
• From Hypertext To SPAs To Hypertext
• Steve Jobs
• Andy Clarke

Issue 051: Freelancing – December 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• "When You Can’t Create, You Can Work"
• Mike Monteiro
• Barry Boehm

Issue 050: Humor – November 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• A Eulogy For Schadenfreude
• Gary Bernhardt
• Geoffrey James

Issue 049: Object-Oriented Programming – October 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Hype Cycle Of OOP
• James Coplien
• The Gang Of Four

Issue 048: Evolution – September 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• Alan Perlis And The Evolution Of Programming Languages
• Bret Victor
• Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, & Sangeet Paul Choudary

Issue 047: Rust – August 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Double Denim Of Software Engineering by Graham Lee
• The State Of Rust In 2022
• Michael Feathers by Graham Lee

Issue 046: Computer Museums – July 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• (Computer) Museums In Switzerland
• The Digital Dark Ages by Graham Lee
• William Aspray

Issue 045: Requirements – June 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Other Side Of The Card by Graham Lee
• On Agile Requirements
• Workers Of The (Digital) World by Graham Lee

Issue 044: Mobile – May 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Law Of Diminishing Returns
• On The Duopoly Of Mobile by Graham Lee
• Erica Sadun

Issue 043: Types – April 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• It Is Not The Types That Will Help You by Graham Lee
• Apples And Oranges
• Janet Abbate by Graham Lee

Issue 042: Trade Unions – March 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• Divide Et Impera
• We Deserve Better. Collectively, We Can Get It. by Graham Lee
• Mar Hicks

Issue 041: Licensing – February 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• Fitness For Purpose by Graham Lee
• The Conquest Of Code
• Richard Matthew Stallman by Graham Lee

Issue 040: Skeuomorphism – January 2022 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Button And The Spoon
• We Cannot Afford To Live Without It by Graham Lee
• Jenifer Tidwell

Issue 039: Methodology – December 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Methodologies: The Next Two Decades by Graham Lee
• You Are Doing It Wrong
• The Three Amigos, Among Others by Graham Lee

Issue 038: Design by Contract – November 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Assertions
• How To Reason About Mutable State by Graham Lee
• Robert L. Glass

Issue 037: Microsoft – October 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Putting The $ In Micro$oft by Graham Lee
• Where Does Microsoft Want To Go Today?
• Microsoft's Writings On Security by Graham Lee

Issue 036: Innovation – September 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• InnovationScript
• Innovation To What End? by Graham Lee
• Douglas Crockford

Issue 035: Python – August 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Majoring In Versions by Graham Lee
• The State Of Python In 2021
• Tim Peters by Graham Lee

Issue 034: Job Market – July 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Corals And Sharks
• Do Not Ask Me About How Interviewing Works by Graham Lee
• Chad Fowler

Issue 033: Management – June 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• On The Absence Of Management by Graham Lee
• The Impossible Dialogue
• Camille Fournier by Graham Lee

Issue 032: Modernism – May 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Great Rewriting In Rust
• Plus Ça Change… by Graham Lee
• Eric Sink

Issue 031: English Language – April 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• The English-Likeness Monster by Graham Lee
• The Winner Takes It All
• Jef Raskin by Graham Lee

Issue 030: Home Office – March 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Await! In Async We Trust
• Your Place or Mine? by Graham Lee
• Gerald Weinberg

Issue 029: Internet of Things – February 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Internet Of Unusable Things by Graham Lee
• On The Need Of Regulation In The IoT Industry
• Douglas Hofstadter by Graham Lee

Issue 028: Programming as a Hobby – January 2021 – PDF

• Introduction
• Specialization Is For Insects
• ZX2020 by Graham Lee
• Michael Hiltzik

Issue 027: Networking – December 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Network Is The Computer by Graham Lee
• Sniffing Packets
• Steve McConnell by Graham Lee

Issue 026: Hardware – November 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Breaking The 3 GHz Barrier
• The Untimely Demise Of Workstations by Graham Lee
• Peter Norton

Issue 025: Smalltalk – October 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• 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

Issue 024: Java – September 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Write Anywhere, Run Once
• Java: The Programmer Environment That Has It All by Graham Lee
• How To Choose A Programming Language For Your Book

Issue 023: Academia – August 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• On Research Software Engineering by Graham Lee
• Teacher, Leave This Kid Alone
• Simson L. Garfinkel & Michael K. Mahoney by Graham Lee

Issue 022: The Cloud – July 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
• Five Computers by Graham Lee
• Brian Kernighan

Issue 021: Open Source – June 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Once The Rockets Go Up, Who Cares Where They Come Down? by Graham Lee
• Open Always Wins
• The Community by Graham Lee

Issue 020: Cycles – May 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Eternally Finally
• There Ain't Nothin' New Under The Sun by Graham Lee
• Kathy Sierra

Issue 019: Cross-Platform – April 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Cross-Platform Is The Platform by Graham Lee
• Dr. Dobbs' And The Deathly Cross-Platform App
• Adele Goldberg by Graham Lee

Issue 018: Obsolescence – March 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• A Farewell To The Von Neumann Architecture
• The Twenty-Year Computer by Graham Lee
• Jean Sammet

Issue 017: A Retrospective of the 2010s – February 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Rise And Fall Of Mobile by Graham Lee
• The Truce Of Type Inference
• Barbara Liskov by Graham Lee

Issue 016: DevOps – January 2020 – PDF

• Introduction
• Antonomasia
• Play It Again, Sam by Graham Lee
• Bertrand Meyer

Issue 015: Writing – December 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• Why My Team Writes by Graham Lee
• On The Aversion To Writing
• Brad Cox by Graham Lee

Issue 014: Minimalism – November 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• Do I Need A Supercomputer? by Graham Lee
• Complex Vs. Complicated

Issue 013: Programming Languages – October 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• De Programmatica Ipsum Volume 2
• Choosing A Programming Language by Graham Lee
• Memories Of Hello World

Issue 012: Being a Senior Developer – September 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• At Least by Daniel Steinberg
• Enough Agile by Graham Lee
• Not Being A Developer After 46

Issue 011: Artificial Intelligence – August 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• From AOP To AI by Adam Jones
• Open Letter To A Future AI
• Artificial Intelligence, Bias, And Opportunity by Graham Lee

Issue 010: Programming Paradigms – July 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• 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

Issue 009: Books, Blogs, Podcasts and Conferences – June 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Software Industry Must Rethink Knowledge-Sharing by Graham Lee
• Less Evangelization, More Honestization

Issue 008: Programming History – May 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• A Brief And Painful History Of Programming by Fernando Rodriguez
• History Repeating
• History Is A Fiction by Graham Lee

Issue 007: Work – April 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• 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

Issue 006: Diversity & Inclusion – March 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• 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

Issue 005: Ethics – February 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• The Current State Of Ethics In Tech by Agis Tsaraboulidis
• Primum Non Nocere
• What Is To Be Done? by Graham Lee

Issue 004: Programming, Art or Science? – January 2019 – PDF

• Introduction
• 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

Issue 003: Security – December 2018 – PDF

• Introduction
• Secure Development Is Dead, Long Live Secure Development by Anastasiia Vixentael
• The Weakest Link
• On Modern Security Culture by Graham Lee

Issue 002: Quality – November 2018 – PDF

• Introduction
• 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

Issue 001: Hype – October 2018 – PDF

• Introduction
• De Programmatica Ipsum – On Programming Itself by Graham Lee
• Mainstream Is The New Hype
• What Is Behind The Hype? by Graham Lee