The Shape of Code

Predicting reports of new faults by counting past reports

Advertised prices of desktop computers during the 1990s

Maximum Adds per second for 1950s/early 1960s computers

Chinese research in software engineering

70% of new software engineering papers on arXiv are LLM related

Identifier names chosen to hold the same information

Analysis of some C/C++ source file characteristics

Relative performance of computers since the 1990s

Investigating an LLM generated C compiler

Algorithm complexity and implementation LOC

Dennard scaling a necessary condition for Moore’s law

Public documents/data on the internet sometimes disappears

Number of calls to/from functions vs function length

Formal methods and LLM generated mathematical proofs

Distribution of small project completion times

Modelling time to next reported fault

My 2025 in software engineering

Programming Punched card machines

Naming convergence in a network of pairwise interactions

Christmas books for 2025

Lifetime of coding mistakes in the Linux kernel

Decline in downloads of once popular packages

Occurrence of binary operator overloading in C++

Fifth anniversary of Evidence-based Software Engineering book

Best tool for measuring lots of source code

Distribution of method chains in Java and Python

Finding links between gcc source code and the C Standard

Modeling the distribution of method sizes

Early research on economies of scale for computer systems

Data+code for book: The New C Standard

Distribution of integer literals in text/speech and source code

ISO C++ committee has a new chief sheep herder

Percentage of methods containing no reported faults

Halstead/McCabe: a complicated formula for LOC

Half-life of Open source research software projects

Positive and negative descriptions of numeric data

Predicted impact of LLM use on developer ecosystems

Impact of developer uncertainty on estimating probabilities

A process to find and extract data-points from graphs in pdf files