If you have ever had a computer problem and googled it, you’ll know that the advice you find will be mixed. When I couldn’t get my hp photosmart 3750 printer working with my mac I tried several zany ideas. Download … Continue reading →

In the comments of a review of a book about Turing… I guess it’s probably fitting that so many computers have been used to tell strangers “Haha u r so gay”.

The sweet spot for his glorious Squeak seems to me to be kids who find joy in creating and exploring. Continue reading →

I had this article published in Better Software a few years ago and it has been sitting over at Developer Testing since then. I am giving it a new home here in case Developer Testing goes away. Who knows? Maybe … Continue reading →

My boss is stepping up the campaign for better quality in the software industry:

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No regrets! Well, of course I dream of what I might have done differently and better, but seriously, who am I to second-guess, say, 1984 vintage Bjarne? He may have been less experienced than I, but he was no less … Continue reading →

I used Microsoft Movie Maker for my second video. I fully expected it to suck. What I hadn’t anticipated was how badly it would suck. It’s hard to imagine a video editor program that would suck more than Microsoft Movie … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago, I set out to do an experiment very similar to this one. The scientists then put the robots in a little arena with two glowing red disks. One disk they called the food source. The … Continue reading →