red-route.org is the personal website of Malcolm Young.
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. … we computer experts barely know what we are doing. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
Once upon a time, in the days before Twitter became a hateful cesspool, there would be little delightful things there. One of those was…
Helping other people to help you by asking the right questions in the right place in the right way
A plea for project managers to stop calling people resources
Why are the National Trust part of the national problem with substance abuse?
What developers and doctors might have in common - towards a professional code of conduct for the tech industry
I started this year without much in the way of goals or resolutions. Just as well really, given what 2020 has brought for us all. I…
It took me 2 years to get from my first Parkrun to my 50th, and just over 2 years to get from 50 to 100. That might suggest a steady plod…
Anti-patterns in instant messaging, and why teams need to get more comfortable about being vulnerable.
