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Computers Are Hard

Talking about why everything breaks all the time.

Computers Are Hard

Computers Are Hard

There’s nothing more dreadful than when a support ticket starts with ‘I’m a software engineer myself and…’
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: bugs and incidents with Charity Majors

Computers Are Hard: bugs and incidents with Charity Majors

Everything’s failing all the time so we’re gonna embrace that and lean into it instead of being afraid.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: networking with Rita Kozlov

Computers Are Hard: networking with Rita Kozlov

The internet is a living thing.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: hardware with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Computers Are Hard: hardware with Greg Kroah-Hartman

A printer is a very complex thing.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: security and cryptography with Anastasiia Voitova

Computers Are Hard: security and cryptography with Anastasiia Voitova

There’s no single action that will allow your application to be secure. It’s a cycle.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: app performance with Jeff Fritz

Computers Are Hard: app performance with Jeff Fritz

When the next person comes in and they can’t understand your code, it doesn’t matter how good it is.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: accessibility with Sina Bahram

Computers Are Hard: accessibility with Sina Bahram

I have no interest in people thinking about accessibility. I have interest in people doing something about accessibility.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: representing alphabets with Bianca Berning

Computers Are Hard: representing alphabets with Bianca Berning

Provided you’re storing and processing text in Unicode, it just works.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
Computers Are Hard: building software with David Heinemeier Hansson

Computers Are Hard: building software with David Heinemeier Hansson

If you were to summarize the entire endeavor of software development, you’d say: ‘The project ran late and it got canceled’.
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Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
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