Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: software engineering

If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start

2025/06/16
ICYMI: “Every TWINSCAN EUV ships with ~45 million lines of code […] Bugfixes and features start out as *word documents* sent to a series of review boards…”

2025/05/05
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 | Silent’s Blog

2025/04/29
DOGE Plans to Rebuild [US Social Security COBOL] Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse | WIRED

2025/03/28
Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates | Ars Technica | …salient for those who believe rapid updates by software companies are the proper route towards user safety

2025/01/16
One person’s “over-engineering” is another person’s “…this error or elision would have been obvious to anyone who had actually thought about the problem for ten minutes”

2025/01/02
It was recently in vogue for academic digital-rights campaigners to demand that platforms (e.g. Facebook) NEVER update user experience without user consent; this HN article…

2024/08/05
Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code | Ars Technica

2024/06/17
Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023

2024/04/27
The Tao of Programming

2024/04/26
“There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights” | Lawfare | Poppycock…

2024/04/04
This is basically how software engineering works…

2024/04/01