A historical collection of our writing.
Yesterday, the EFF filed an amicus brief signed by some of the big names in computer science and software engineering to support the court decision in Oracle vs. Google that APIs are not copyrightable. The brief is well worth reading because it lays out in detail many of the instances over the last […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We recently installed a Nest to control the heating and air conditioning. On a subsequent muggy day I was about to pick up the phone to call home and see if someone was there to turn on the AC (we were expecting guests) when I remembered that I could now do that remotely! I fired […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Occasionally I get an inquiry as to whether someone can republish posts from Continuations. I finally remembered that I had meant to address this question and have added a Creative Commons License to the footer of the blog. I am using the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. For further […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I still have quite a few great topics suggested by readers to work off for my Tech Tuesday series on technology in startups. But today I want to take on a different issue because it has been on my mind. I have now been programming computers in one way or another for over thirty years […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today was Memorial Day, which as I wrote previously seems to mean beginning of summer to most (including our family). We are fortunate that way as we have lived our lives far removed from any wars including the ones that the US military has been actively fighting in the last decades. It is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At the height of the re-engineering craze there was one fantastic HBR article titled “Re-engineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate.” In light of the changes in the labor market the choice of “obliterate” may now seem unfortunate, but the basic point of the article was spot on: don’t implement […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
