Software and Other Shenanigans

The checkboxes are everywhere, and once you notice them you’ll never unsee them

A case study in peak overemployment

The myth of “enterprise software”

Abstractions are hard to get right

The AI pitfall

You can just run the code

I don’t think the problem is that the job market is broken

Another “left-pad” incident is coming, and it’s going to be nasty.

That deep end was deeper than I anticipated

Time to learn something new