Kieran Potts

An interview is a two-way process.

Fred Brooks's classic book The Mythical Man-Month was published 50 years ago.

The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander is a classic text on real-world architecture.

PHP version 1.0 was announced on 8 June 1995.

A mental model for thinking about the relative importance of essential and accidental complexity.

Cyberia, thought to be the world's first commercially successful internet café, opened in London on 1 September 1994.

Requests for Comments (RFCs) are strikingly underused in commercial software delivery.

Gmail marks the start of the era of web applications.

A mental model for thinking about the different attributes of a software system: it's functional and non-functional requirements, and it's quality.

What's wrong with the term "REST API", and what should we use instead?

Should we rebrand JavaScript?

Welcome to my new blog, an exploration of the state of the software industry.

CentOS and Ubuntu dominate Linux web servers.