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Harmful", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/02/aphorism-considered-harmful/", "published_at": "2022-02-23T13:05:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-a2ac-71be-a2ec-85ee1906c2e8", "title": "What is software engineering?", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/02/what-is-software-engineering/", "published_at": "2022-02-18T19:49:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc72e824a2", "title": "Diagnosing a Docker image build problem", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/02/diagnosing-a-docker-image-build-problem/", "published_at": "2022-02-15T10:30:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc73904ade", "title": "Halloween is Over", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/02/halloween-is-over/", "published_at": "2022-02-08T18:27:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc7486577f", "title": "Design Patterns On Trial", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/02/design-patterns-on-trial/", "published_at": "2022-02-06T22:07:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc7513890e", "title": "Falsehoods These Programmers Believed About Countries", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/01/falsehoods-these-programmers-believed-about-countries/", "published_at": "2022-01-30T16:42:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc7514547a", "title": "Introducing the SICPers Newsletter", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/01/introducing-the-sicpers-newsletter/", "published_at": "2022-01-28T17:56:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc75e114fb", "title": "[objc retain]; continues apace", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/01/objc-retain-continues-apace/", "published_at": "2022-01-27T22:41:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc7672aad1", "title": "On Apple’s swings and misses", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/01/on-apples-swings-and-misses/", "published_at": "2022-01-20T08:31:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc76d69930", "title": "Licenses aren’t sufficient", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/01/licenses-arent-sufficient/", "published_at": "2022-01-11T18:50:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc7713a09a", "title": "On the glorification of ignorance", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2022/01/on-the-glorification-of-ignorance/", "published_at": "2022-01-05T12:38:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf77-d821-7297-bc03-e7fc77d4bf3e", "title": "Explicitly considering subtyping in inheritance", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/12/explicitly-considering-subtyping-in-inheritance/", "published_at": "2021-12-03T11:22:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d3d0a38a", "title": "I have some small idea of what I’m doing", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/11/i-have-some-small-idea-of-what-im-doing/", "published_at": "2021-11-30T00:16:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d4348062", "title": "An Imagined History of Agile Software Development", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/11/an-imagined-history-of-agile-software-development/", "published_at": "2021-11-21T21:48:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d49aa1a1", "title": "Second Brain", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/11/second-brain/", "published_at": "2021-11-12T18:06:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d52909d5", "title": "Scripting confusion", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/10/scripting-confusion/", "published_at": "2021-10-23T12:34:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d5e1acb3", "title": "20 things learned in 20 years as a software engineer", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/10/20-things-learned-in-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/", "published_at": "2021-10-08T11:15:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d67ea656", "title": "The “return a command” trick in Haskell", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/10/the-return-a-command-trick-in-haskell/", "published_at": "2021-10-07T21:40:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d68320b5", "title": "The missing principle in agile software development", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/09/the-missing-principle-in-agile-software-development/", "published_at": "2021-09-30T09:48:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d7233a72", "title": "Apple and Bug Bounties", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/09/apple-and-bug-bounties/", "published_at": "2021-09-24T06:44:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cf78-038e-70b7-8cd1-43d3d75e222e", "title": "In which I misunderstood Objective-C", "url": "https://www.sicpers.info/2021/09/in-which-i-misunderstood-objective-c/", "published_at": "2021-09-19T22:00:04+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

AI adoption, engineering process, and documentation consultancy original ↗

25 Sept 2026

End of Line: Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools original ↗

16 Jul 2026

Using WebObjects at web-scale with Kubernetes and Firebase original ↗

6 Jul 2026

Free Software and LLM Contribution Policies original ↗

26 Jun 2026

I keep bouncing off the Scheme language original ↗

22 May 2026

On industrial relations original ↗

3 May 2026

Art or tool?original ↗

31 Mar 2026

On working machines original ↗

18 Mar 2026

Announcing AppScript original ↗

16 Mar 2026

Chiron Codex early bird ends soon original ↗

11 Mar 2026

On thinking machines original ↗

10 Mar 2026

Considering society original ↗

16 Feb 2026

Happy 25th birthday to the manifesto for agile software development!original ↗

12 Feb 2026

Opinionated Read: How AI Impacts Skill Formation original ↗

1 Feb 2026

Creating “sub-agents” with Mistral Vibe original ↗

23 Jan 2026

Announcing Chiron Codex, a community of software centaurs original ↗

22 Jan 2026

Configuring your computer for local inference with a generative AI coding assistant original ↗

12 Jan 2026

2025

Management is the wrong analogy for LLM augmentation original ↗

29 Dec 2025

Is spec-driven development the end of Agile software development?original ↗

12 Dec 2025

On the value of old principles original ↗

3 Dec 2025

Vibe coding and BASIC original ↗

28 Nov 2025

Essence and accident in language model-assisted coding original ↗

24 Nov 2025

Tony Hoare and negative space original ↗

12 Nov 2025

When did people favor composition over inheritance?original ↗

6 Nov 2025

LLMs and reinforcement learning original ↗

10 Oct 2025

Prompting software or supporting engineering original ↗

7 Oct 2025

Unintended consequences original ↗

28 Aug 2025

Is Foundation a Utopian vision?original ↗

11 Jul 2025

Hi, I’m Graham and I like things original ↗

11 Jun 2025

On Nostalgia for Physical Media original ↗

15 Feb 2025

The gaps between the processes original ↗

25 Jan 2025

In which things are not known original ↗

11 Jan 2025

Is software engineering a thing?original ↗

6 Jan 2025

Resolutions original ↗

2 Jan 2025

2024

On the Consolation of Software Engineering original ↗

2 Dec 2024

In which a life re-emerges original ↗

31 Oct 2024

The Cataract of Software Delivery original ↗

18 Jun 2024

Non-standard components original ↗

26 Apr 2024

Specific physical phenomena original ↗

23 Apr 2024

Related methods and tools original ↗

11 Apr 2024

YX problem original ↗

8 Mar 2024

Floating point numbers aren’t weird original ↗

20 Feb 2024

Still no silver bullet?original ↗

3 Feb 2024

On whiteboard coding original ↗

1 Feb 2024

2023

On software engineering hermeneutics original ↗

13 Dec 2023

On rational myths original ↗

25 Nov 2023

We shall return one day original ↗

16 Nov 2023

In which things are given names original ↗

3 Nov 2023

I’ve vastly misunderstood the Single Responsibility Principle original ↗

4 Oct 2023

Programming, language original ↗

3 Oct 2023

I was wrong, 80 characters is fine original ↗

6 Sept 2023

Re-evaluating second brains original ↗

28 Aug 2023

Type safety, undefined behaviour, and us original ↗

3 Aug 2023

On legitimacy and software engineering original ↗

23 Jul 2023

On association original ↗

12 Feb 2023

Your reminder that “British English” and “American English” are fictional constructs original ↗

16 Jan 2023

2022

On Scarcity original ↗

13 Nov 2022

Transcendence original ↗

8 Sept 2022

The Image Model original ↗

17 Aug 2022

Phrases in computing that might need retiring original ↗

25 Jul 2022

On entering programming in 2022 original ↗

11 Jul 2022

More detail on software requirements original ↗

25 Jun 2022

Why mock objects aren’t popular this week original ↗

22 Jun 2022

More micros, less Guinness original ↗

16 Jun 2022

On self-taught coders original ↗

1 Jun 2022

On the locations of the bullet holes on bombers that land successfully original ↗

25 May 2022

Even more on generalist software engineering original ↗

11 May 2022

On interviewing and generalist software engineers original ↗

10 May 2022

You say “cave dweller debugging”, I say debug logging original ↗

6 May 2022

The Requirements Trifecta original ↗

3 May 2022

On or Between original ↗

14 Apr 2022

WWDC 2022 is a WWDC watch party original ↗

6 Apr 2022

Classism in software engineering original ↗

5 Apr 2022

Software design is refinement, not abstraction original ↗

29 Mar 2022

Unit test: you keep using this word.original ↗

21 Mar 2022

Why are we like this?original ↗

15 Mar 2022

When to “address” “technical debt”?original ↗

13 Mar 2022

So that’s how it works original ↗

9 Mar 2022

Having the right data original ↗

3 Mar 2022

Aphorism Considered Harmful original ↗

23 Feb 2022

What is software engineering?original ↗

18 Feb 2022

Diagnosing a Docker image build problem original ↗

15 Feb 2022

Halloween is Over original ↗

8 Feb 2022

Design Patterns On Trial original ↗

6 Feb 2022

Falsehoods These Programmers Believed About Countries original ↗

30 Jan 2022

Introducing the SICPers Newsletter original ↗

28 Jan 2022

[objc retain]; continues apace original ↗

27 Jan 2022

On Apple’s swings and misses original ↗

20 Jan 2022

Licenses aren’t sufficient original ↗

11 Jan 2022

On the glorification of ignorance original ↗

5 Jan 2022

2021

Explicitly considering subtyping in inheritance original ↗

3 Dec 2021

I have some small idea of what I’m doing original ↗

30 Nov 2021

An Imagined History of Agile Software Development original ↗

21 Nov 2021

Second Brain original ↗

12 Nov 2021

Scripting confusion original ↗

23 Oct 2021

20 things learned in 20 years as a software engineer original ↗

8 Oct 2021

The “return a command” trick in Haskell original ↗

7 Oct 2021

The missing principle in agile software development original ↗

30 Sept 2021

Apple and Bug Bounties original ↗

24 Sept 2021

In which I misunderstood Objective-C original ↗

19 Sept 2021