Systems and Society

I’ve had computer programming as my career and late evening passion for more than 20 years.

There has recently been some debates on /r/java at Reddit [1] [2] about the current state of exceptions in Java.

Vibe coding, or letting an LLM write code for you, is here to stay.

April 23rd 1995, James Gosling and Sun Microsystems released the first public version of Java.

For decades, code reuse was heralded as a holy grail of software engineering.

Whatever system you are building, it is built on a mountain of efforts of other people.

Every one of your dependencies is made and maintained by people.

Pandemonium has erupted.