SA9G 8 minutes ago

I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.

pbohun an hour ago

Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go. https://research.swtch.com/fp

shaftoe444 a day ago

> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

  • Cthulhu_ 2 hours ago

    The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.

  • ignoramous an hour ago

    Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.

    • arccy 36 minutes ago

      don't we already have the words slop and vibecode

  • pstuart 3 hours ago

    An amazing distillation of the craft.

dchest 3 hours ago

I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.