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TEXT "Programming Sucks" by Peter Welch
TEXT Why you shouldn't parse [X]HTML with regex, by bobince
TEXT About the ICCCM, by Sean Neakums
TEXT "How Software Companies Die", by Orson Scott Card
TEXT About temporal measurement, by Robert Grudin
TEXT "How To Write Unmaintainable Code", by Roedy Green
HTML "Programming is terrible", a talk by tef
TEXT "Devil's Dictionary of Programming", by the same
TEXT From the Scsh Reference Manual, by Olin Shivers
TEXT "Ed is the standard text editor", the last word on editor wars, by Patrick J. LoPresti
TEXT "I hate almost all software", by Ryan Dahl
TEXT "Oh yippee, a new build system", by Richard Purdie
TEXT "Everything is Broken", By Quinn Norton
TEXT "Dizzying but invisible depth", By Jean Baptiste Queru
TEXT "the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horseshit", By Fredrik DeBoer
TEXT About corporate language, by Lucy Kellaway
TEXT Rant from "Our Comrade The Electron", by Maciej Cegłowski
TEXT System software research is irrelevant, by Rob Pike
TEXT YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND THIS, by Stanley Lieber
"Verification Techniques, Wherein existing methods for building secure systems are examined and found wanting." By Peter Gutmann (full text: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/2310/02whole.pdf?sequence=2)
TEXT Software Disenchantment, by Nikita Prokopov
TEXT Interruptions
TEXT Against software development, by Michael Arntzenius
TEXT The broken promise of re-use, by Uwe Friedrichsen
TEXT Everything's broken and nobody's upset, by Scott Hanselman
TEXT Modern software development is a cancer, by Igor Ljubuncic
TEXT Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit, by Scott Locklin
TEXT Javascript is cancer, by Ted Dziuba
TEXT I'm going to scale my foot up your ass, by the same
TEXT Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit, by Steve Yegge
TEXT "Both C locales and wchar_t are shitfucked retarded legacy braindeath", by "wm4"
TEXT Code comment regarding the Adobe PSD file format
TEXT Javascript required, by "tommorris"
TEXT "GitHub, f*ck your name change", by "MooseyAnon"
TEXT Why we will win the war for general-purpose computing, by Andy Farrell
HTML Never update anything
TEXT Code bloat has become astronomical, by cliffski
TEXT The Internet is already over, by Sam Kriss
TEXT I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again, by "Ludicity"
TEXT I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, by the same
TEXT We are destroying software, by antirez