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Why types in programming languages matter
A quick look at B, C, JavaScript, the Ariane 5 rocket disaster, and why you should probably be using types in your code.
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John McBride
August 2023
Reject Influence. Choose Prestige.
Discovering A More Impactful Online Presence For Technical Leaders
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John McBride
June 2023
The folly of using ChatGPT
Reflections on large language models for writing, coding, and knowledge acquisition.
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John McBride
May 2023
Why engineers need to be bored.
An analysis on boredom in engineering productivity and how it can lead to deeper innovation.
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John McBride
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April 2023
How the Agile Manifesto changed nothing.
After over 20 years, in an eerily similar tech market, the ideals of the Agile Manifesto still seem novel and strange. What happened?
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John McBride
Revisiting the Core-JS situation
SE7EN, 1995 - “The Box” Weeks ago, Denis Pushkarev, the author of core-js, published “So, what’s next?”. While a long and lengthy stream of…
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John McBride
There is no secure software supply-chain
Years ago, entrepreneurs and innovators predicated that “software would eat the world”. And to little surprise, year after year, the world has become…
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John McBride
Welcome to On Engineering
This is On Engineering. A new publication about technology, engineering, the different businesses within the industry, and the processes that got us…
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John McBride
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