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Computers Are Hard
Talking about why everything breaks all the time.
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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…’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
Wojtek Borowicz
Sep 27, 2020
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