Rob Janssen

Everything's broken and nobody's upset

Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. All of this happened with a single week of actual work. There are likely a hundred more issues like this.

HTTP for servers

Disclosure: And-httpd is a HTTP server I wrote. You've all seen HTTP requests, right? They're simple and look like:

Software and Algorithms : Damerau-Levenshtein Edit Distance

It Will Never Work in Theory

It Will Never Work in Theory May 1, 2014 Daniel Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang and Pekka Abrahamsson: "Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering" PeerJ 2(289), Mar. 2014. https://peerj.

profserious : Bottom 10 Software Engineering Challenges

profserious : Top 10 Software Engineering Challenges

Things I’ve quit doing at my desk

We need to think of our desks as workstations. In reality, we do all sorts of things at our desks that aren’t real work (or affect our ability to produce our best work).

API Engine - Great apps start with great apis

Visualizing Startups & The Space Program: What's your DOD? - hacking for th

Caine's Arcade 2: From a Movie to a Movement

"Caine's Arcade" goes global, inspiring millions and launching the Imagination Foundation & Global Cardboard Challenge: http://cardboardchallenge.comHelp us engage 1 million kids in creative play!Imagination Foundationhttp://www.imagination.ishttp://imagination.is/donatet: http://twitter.com/imagina

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.