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Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill – Medium

medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22

Almost two decades ago, Joel Spolsky excoriated Netscape for rewriting their codebase in his landmark essay Things You Should Never Do. He concluded that a functioning application should never, ever…

• development, tag
• software, tag
• business, tag
• computing_history, tag
• ·5 years ago

Software Folklore ― Andreas Zwinkau

beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/

• debugging, tag
• software, tag
• programming, tag
• bug, tag
• stories, tag
• folklore, tag
• computing_history, tag
• funny, tag
• ·8 years ago

Furrtek.org : GameBoy: Cartouches pirate

furrtek.free.fr/

• lang:fr, tag
• hacking, tag
• computing_history, tag
• videogames, tag
• cartridges, tag
• ·10 years ago

The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America)

fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-poop-emoji-or-how-google-brought-poop-to-america

• emoji, tag
• culture, tag
• japan, tag
• google, tag
• computing_history, tag
• ·10 years ago

The Video Game Preservation Dump

gamepreservation.tumblr.com/

• digital_preservation, tag
• video_games, tag
• archiving, tag
• computing_history, tag
• advertising, tag
• consoles, tag
• ·10 years ago

X to Close — re:form — Medium

medium.com/re-form/x-to-close-417936dfc0dc

• user_interface, tag
• computing_history, tag
• digital_preservation, tag
• gui, tag
• windows_95, tag
• semiotics, tag
• symbols, tag
• close, tag
• ·10 years ago