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TSA Notice of Baggage Inspection

Edsger Dijkstra and the TSA school of software correctness

A point of view focused on prevention, and on categories of error we already understand, will necessarily shortchange the tools and methods for approaching brand new new surprises as they happen.

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Articles March 20, 2020

Who is your failure helping?

True story: I once worked on a project where I was told from the outset that “we probably will not use your code”. This was back when I worked at…

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Articles January 20, 2015

Jim Weirich on exceptions

Back in 2011 I was doing research for the talk that became Exceptional Ruby, and Jim Weirich was nice enough to let me pick his brain on the topic. I…

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