September 8th, 2015
JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ, WebStorm, and many other IDEs, recently announced they are moving to a subscription model. This has proven to be somewhat controversial.
Tagged: software
July 13th, 2015
Is software getting better or worse? Some say we are making software ever more bloated. Some say we don’t care about quality anymore; that worse is better. Some say we haven’t changed how we write software in 40 years. It's still ASCII text on disk. (Yes that would be me, saying that). Certainly our programming languages haven’t improved. We still write billions of lines in glorified C code!