Essays - Page 3

How many times have you used a piece of software that was full of incredibly convoluted features, strange decisions, and unusable interfaces?

One of the major goals that I have with researching software design is the hope that we can take people who are

So, there’s a lot of talk on the Internet about privacy. Some people say that privacy is only desired by those who

A long time ago, I wrote an essay called “Why Computers Suck” (it was given the title “Computers” and “What’s Wrong With

Before all the laws of software, before the purpose of software, before the science of software design itself, there is a singular

The attitude that every engineer should have, in every field of engineering, is: I can solve this problem the right way.

So, after my last post, a few people asked, “Okay, but how do you figure out what sucks?”

When I started working on Bugzilla in 2004, it was a difficult time for the whole project. There were tremendous problems with

So, as a little digression from our normal content, I felt like writing a list of the top 10 reasons to work

There’s a strange sort of social disease going around in technology circles today, and it all centers around this word “innovation.” Everybody