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Stories by GeoffWozniak

The Decline of Usability (datagubbe.se)
Massacring C Pointers (wozniak.ca)
if...then...else had to be invented (github.com)
Stop Using Encrypted Email (latacora.micro.blog)
Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (medium.com)
The Danger of "Simplicity" (asthasr.github.io)
It’s time for makefiles to make a comeback (medium.com)
How Not To Release Historic Source Code (os2museum.com)
A fork() in the road (microsoft.com)
Has UML died without anyone noticing? (garba.org)
Lisp Badge (technoblogy.com)
"HTML email, was that your fault?" (jwz.org)
You don’t need reproducible builds (blog.cmpxchg8b.com)
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (sciencemag.org)
The magic of no maintenance (dimtion.fr)
How does AI impact my job as a programmer? (chelseatroy.com)
What is Systems Programming, Really? (willcrichton.net)
I scanned every package on PyPi and found 57 live AWS keys (tomforb.es)
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (wirfs-brock.com)
The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle (ietf.org)
Print Debugging Should Go Away (robert.ocallahan.org)
22 years of Emacs (arjenwiersma.nl)
When you code, write down everything (swizec.com)
Leap second hiatus (fanf.dreamwidth.org)
C is too low level (blog.erratasec.com)
A response to the "C Is Not A Low-Level Language" article. ([lobste.rs discussion](https://lobste.rs/s/rnoybz/c_is_not_low_level_language))
The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
Lessons Learned (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
"Pull up a chair, lemme tell you a story." (marc.info)
The future of education is plain text (simplystatistics.org)
Perhaps as a spark to discussion, this was presented with the note [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/msimoni/status/889151505672142849), "when people say plain text, they really mean the Unix ecosystem. 'plain text' only seems 'natural' when you have kilotons of tooling for it."
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019 (blog.mozilla.org)