Chapters, Essays and Special Content

Never Fall in Love

A lesson about Dungeons & Dragons and THAC0.

Women Are Responsible for Global Warming (NOT!)

A theory about Evolution, Food Chain, and Sex.

פוליטיקת זהויות, קיטוב והשיתוק הליברלי

Identity Politics, Polarization, and Liberal Paralysis — Hebrew translation of the Medium essay.

אנטיסטוקוס

Antistokos — a strophe/antistrophe piece. An original two-part work in Hebrew.

Jokes

Feet of Clay

Nobby Nobbs is offered a King's position.

Brave Sir Robin

Transcription.

The Curious Incident of the Disappearing Item in Production-Time

An Int32 overflow bug that made a POS stop selling every 24.9 days, for 24 minutes.

Highly Anticipated, Unexpected Announcement

A top-secret, self-destructing kickoff meeting — and the project that would come to be known only as NEMO.

Some Thoughts About BDD

On Givenwhenthen, business analysts who don't write code, and why behavior isn't the same thing as requirements.

How to Implement a Requirement (a.k.a. “The eMail Chain”)

A real, lightly-annotated e-mail chain about a missing field, and what everyone in it actually meant.

Big Data Architecture

A six-panel comic strip about Big-Data, HBase, relational constraints, and ACID guarantees.

The Lazy Developer Paradox

Why developers write code to get out of work, and how that very impulse gives birth to the next generation of programming language.

Helpful Errors

Why most error messages are useless, a pilot joke about Heathrow, and six guidelines for designing errors that actually help.

One plus One equals Zero

A rant about ending up with every disadvantage of both Copy-Based and In-Place data sharing, and none of the advantages.

דפים פוליטיים

Political reference pages, including campaign-booth materials.