“Complexity kills,” Lotus Notes creator and Microsoft veteran Ray Ozzie famously wrote in a 2005 internal memo. “It sucks the life out of developers; it makes products difficult to plan, build, and test; it introduces security challenges; and it causes user and administrator frustration.” If Ozzie thought things were complicated back then, you can’t help […]
The growing complexity of modern software systems is slowly killing software developers. How can they regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer?
A Stack Overflow-branded keyboard with just three buttons is a great April Fools’ gag that has no business being as neat and useful as it is. And yet Stack Overflow and manufacturer Drop have. #thekey
A Stack Overflow-branded keyboard with just three buttons (Ctrl, C, and V) is a great April Fools’ gag. But the $29 The Key is surprisingly flexible thanks to being reprogrammable to do basically anything.