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Well, you can say one thing about Elon Musks' management style: it's different.

He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.

Great links, reading and images for 18 November 2022

Pjones writes "Many of us know Fred Brooks from his book, Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, and from his coining of the term "computer architecture." He is also famous for Brooks Law which every manager should learn and be forced to repeat daily. So its good news to report that B...

The storied history of web-scale problems offers lessons for operators of increasingly complex IT environments.

A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism.

What can software learn from Christopher Alexander? Many programmers know that the idea of design patterns comes from architecture, but Christopher Alexanders writing has much more for us than just the Gang of Four design patterns. This post is a somewhat assorted collection of ideas for better software and programming, triggered by reading of Alexanders book The Timeless Way of Building.

It's not just big companies that fall victim to ransomware attacks. Here's the story of a small business that almost got wrecked by one.

Collected tips from building the Austral compiler.

GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.