Traditional software has been accidentally designed to cater to a specific type of user; for those people software is easy and intuitive, but for everyone else it is a major pain. This poor design is a gender bug (also known as a personality bug) of the system. People have a…

When I don’t know exactly what I want to say I find my best writing comes by starting out with a shitty first draft. By shitty first draft I don’t mean subpar writing, I mean something terrible enough that I feel like I am throwing up words out of my…

Software can be considered intellectual property through either patents or copyright, but patents have many issues. The world of software is a rapidly changing one whereas the process of gaining a patent is a long and tedious journey. This means that for many developers the process of seeking a patent…

When interviewing for a software development position companies want to see your experience and contributions, but having worked at another company is not sufficient enough to prove that you are qualified. Most other career pathways don’t act this way. For example, in medicine you might be required to stay up…

Social media sites have been designed to keep people on the site because the longer someone is online the more ads can be shown and more money is made. Anything that arouses an emotion is given top priority because it will cause people to stay online. People are able to find others that share their opinions, no matter what the opinion is, which causes people to feel validated in their opinions and begin to treat them as fact. Social media then shows the individual more and more of whatever that opinion is which digs them deeper and deeper into the belief that they have found truth. The less you question your opinions and beliefs the harder it is to be open-minded when someone suggests that you might be incorrect. This has divided us as a society into factions that are no longer tolerant toward others.

Who contributes to open source? To discover the answer to that we must dig into why people contribute to open source. Young software engineers are encouraged to participate in open source projects to improve their resumes; older software engineers are encouraged to participate in order to keep their skill sets…

Security is both really interesting and really boring. When you watch a movie with computer hackers there tends to be a tense action scene of them hacking into a system and then someone reverse hacking them to find their location. Reality paints a starkly different picture. A hacker will likely…

Should anyone be cancelled? If so, who? What kinds of people for what kinds of actions? Our society has evolved to a point where what is socially acceptable is changing and if an individual doesn’t change with it fast enough they will potentially be punished for it for the rest…

The world of cybersecurity has drastically changed since the 1980’s. Back then a hacker was most likely someone that worked hard to find solutions to problems, not an evil actor out to get your information, and even if it did have the latter connotation it didn’t much matter; information was…