Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “software”

Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html

OKRs from a development team’s perspective – ZAFU LABS

zafulabs.com/2019/05/24/okrs-from-a-development-teams-perspective/

Most of the companies I've worked for in the last 5 years have used the OKR system. Although this system was invented in the 70s, it has more recently become popular at Google and has spread through the tech world. It's a simple system where the company defines a number of Objectives, and each objective…

[1904.09954] Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects)

arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954

Crossfont - Easy-to-use font editor for Mac

pixelegg.me/crossfont

Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money

ianbicking.org/blog/2019/03/open-source-doesnt-make-money-by-design.html

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…

No More Google

nomoregoogle.com/

Contexts - Radically simpler & faster window switcher for Mac

contexts.co/

Switch between application windows effortlessly — with Fast Search, a better Command-Tab, a Sidebar or even a quick gesture. Free trial available.

Assistive technology tools you can test with at no cost - Accessibility in government

accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2018/09/27/assistive-technology-tools-you-can-use-at-no-cost/

Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me

tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

The Twelve-Factor App

12factor.net/

A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

norvig.com/21-days.html

ocr-shot.sh

gist.github.com/pnc/b7fb38d70f157cd40595d9e52bebc055

a script that OCRs screenshots and makes them searchable from spotlight.

Software development 450 words per minute - Vincit

vincit.fi/en/blog/software-development-450-words-per-minute/

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)

cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

Rise of Worse Is Better

dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

simplicity / correctness / consistency / completeness in lisp and C

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing...