As an optimist I concur with Baldur Bjarnason.

“You don’t spend years of your life figuring out how the flaws of the web can be fixed unless you think the web has massive unfulfilled potential.”

This short essay is worth your time if you give a d*mn.

baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-softw…

Missed gem, no less interesting almost a year later.

Bad Writing and other essays, by Baldur Bjarnason Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/books/bad-writ…

I'm reading this piece by Baldur Bjarnason on programming as theory-building, and it has so many gems💎

baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-bu…

Two year review: to plan a strategy you must first have a theory of how the hell things work, by Baldur Bjarnason Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/2024/2022-23-s…

Every single successful software project I've worked on (consciously, or not) obeyed Gall's law. And I've had that same ridiculous misunderstanding about 'MVP' over and over.

“Gall's Law”
by Baldur Bjarnason
baldurbjarnason.com/2023/yellow-ga…

Code smell, Gall’s Law, the rule of least power, and a bunch of links, by Baldur Bjarnason Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/2023/code-smel…

The evolution of software development methodologies:

* Waterfall

* Agile

* “Let’s throw a few billion neurons at the wall and see what sticks.”

> Most web apps […] have the usability and aesthetics of a 1990s enterprise Windows app trying to fit in at pride. [With bonus] grossly misplaced attempts at casual banter.

“Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?”
by Baldur Bjarnason
baldurbjarnason.com/2023/web-dev-u…

“A quick introduction to test-driven web development using just the browser.”

If you want to succeed at this, Baldur Bjarnason shows you how.

baldurbjarnason.com/2023/web-dev-w…

I want to really recommend this book softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com by Baldur Bjarnason which we are starting to incorporate in the onboarding material at Huddlestock , awesome content!

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies buff.ly/3Qr67wh (via Baldur Bjarnason)

What the fuck? All of a sudden all of my GitHub repositories are returning a 404!

Weeknote and links: 2 October 2023, by Baldur Bjarnason Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/2023/weeknote-…

Weeknote: 25 September 2023, by Baldur Bjarnason Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/2023/weeknote-…

Weeknote: 18 September 2023, by Baldur Bjarnasson Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/2023/weeknote-…

This is why I've referred to AI as a 'surveillance derivative' -- ultimately, it's a way to profit more & grow more on the back of the surveillance biz model

AI itself is also surveillance tech--monitoring, assessing, and making 'new data' about you/us

wired.com/story/fast-for…

You can’t debate bullshit (and some links). It took me too long to realise that opinions aren’t just opinions. By Baldur Bjarnason Baldur Bjarnason / Out of the Software Crisis baldurbjarnason.com/2023/debating-…