Archive
54 posts by year

2025

  1. Rethinking OMB Circular A-76: The Case for Federal Insourcing of Software Engineering
  2. GenAI and Mainframe COBOL Modernization
  3. Lessons Learned Using LLMs with COBOL on Exercism
  4. Career Search Update: Extending the Sabbatical
  5. The 'Systems Programmer' Identity Is Maladaptive for Career Planning
  6. Review of Advanced C++ (1992) by James Coplien
  7. CRTP is the Worst Acronym in C++
  8. Book Review: Fire in the Valley
  9. On the CrowdStrike Outage and Its Aftermath
  10. Summary of Decline & Fall of the American Programmer (1992) by Edward Yourdon
  11. The all-electric IBM Personal Transport: Drive Silently
  12. It's time to end the Programming Priesthood
  13. Reflections on Podcasts at 20
  14. Sally and the Lost Art of Programming
  15. How IBM gambled and failed to standardize ASCII on the IBM System/360

2019

  1. Still No Silver Bullet
  2. Linux Containers are the new POSIX
  3. Brutal Truthtelling about Burnout
  4. The Io Programming Language
  5. Reflections on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
  6. Missing Prelude to Rust Ownership
  7. How I got here: Chapter 2
  8. The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL)
  9. The Ruby Programming Language
  10. Programming Language Tourism
  11. Sharks, Strength, Simulacra, Sandcastles

2018

  1. HQ2 at Crystal City
  2. Goodbye Decipher!
  3. Operation Code DC - October 2018
  4. Operation Code DC - August 2018
  5. Summary of ENIAC by Scott McCartney
  6. How I got here: Chapter 1
  7. Biggest Blessings of 2017

2016

  1. Beginner Guide to WebVR on Daydream
  2. Silencing the Siren Song
  3. Regular Expressions Reference
  4. Rules to be Outsource-Proof
  5. Battle of the Somme Centennial

2014

  1. System/360 at 50

2013

  1. Don't run the Hercules Mainframe Emulator on your IBM laptop!
  2. Protect your Nuts - Hazing and Mainframes at West Point
  3. Mac 3270 Zen with Brown tn3270 and Better Touch Tool
  4. What would Jesus code?
  5. Sólyom Fekete Family History Project

2011

  1. zEnterprise - Mainframe Hybrid Computing
  2. The Five Dwarves. Exploring non-Amazon IaaS Options
  3. Evolution of x86 Hypervisors
  4. Saints Francis, Jude, and Watson
  5. Status Report–25% to degree completion

2010

  1. Back to School? Again?
  2. Rite of Acceptance and Career Search Continued
  3. Career Guide Madness
  4. Career Search Ongoing

2007

  1. On Duty, Honor, Country
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