The Third Bit

While I’m looking for work, I’m going to try writing this series of essays.

A friend and I found out last week that our proposal for some government work wasn’t accepted, so I am once again looking for work.

This arrived out of the blue in today’s mail: As I wrote when I received the original award, I am very honored, but wish I’d had more impact on how software engineering is taught and how software engineering researchers interact with practitioners.

So how did I do?

This one-day workshop introduces a few ideas that someone with a background in computer science (or tech more generally) needs to know in order to think clearly about the harms of social media and AI, and about how they should be regulated.

I would be very grateful for pointers to other recent empirical studies of the impact of AI on programming education that are more rigorous than the gushing slop being tossed around on LinkedIn.

I am converting the notes for “Managing Research Software Projects” from McCole to Quarto.

Thanks to a lot of hard work by Liz Neeley, I had a chance to run the project closure workshop online yesterday.

What do you do when teaching programming with LLMs that isn’t in this list?

Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers’ beliefs about software engineering folklore.

A week ago I posted this here, on Mastodon, and on LinkedIn: In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn’t admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the le…

In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn’t admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the left wouldn’t admit he was a repulsive human being.

Thirty years ago, when I first started writing for Doctor Dobb’s Journal, I decided to do a piece on the object-oriented features that were being added to MATLAB 5.

This post has been moved to a new home.

NOAA’s Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors describes ten different kinds of people who can disrupt meetings and gives advice for handling each.

I’m co-teaching a lesson for the Carpentries next week about the impact of LLMs on teaching.

I finally have time to flesh out ideas for lessons that I’ve wanted for years.

I’m currently making a few last changes to the third book in this series and trying to find an agent who will handle them.

Would you like to have some real impact on the tech industry?

I’ve been unemployed for eight months now, and haven’t written as much as I thought I would.