2024

• September

  • Sep 29: To Broadcast or Not to Broadcast: A Nuanced Perspective

  July

  • Jul 19: Is Crowdstrike the Final Straw?

  June

  • Jun 14: A Plan for Professionalism

  January

  • Jan 18: No, Tech Debt Is Not Malpractice

2023

• December

  • Dec 13: Am I a Good C Programmer?

  November

  • Nov 28: How to Fund FOSS, Save It from the CRA, and Improve Cybersecurity
  • Nov 5: Your Loved Ones Are Prisoners, and You Made the Chain

  October

  • Oct 26: An Open Letter to Cryptographers: Please Work Together
  • Oct 22: He Who Gives Up Correctness for Performance Deserves Neither

  June

  • Jun 9: An Apology to the Gentoo Authors

  April

  • Apr 24: AI Evangelists Scare Me

2022

• October

  • Oct 28: We Must Professionalize Programming to Preserve Society and Computing Freedom
  • Oct 24: Technical Debt Costs More Than You Think, or My Software Development Process

  February

  • Feb 10: Goodbye, Kitty

  January

  • Jan 14: The Law of Strict Licenses
  • Jan 9: The Social Contract of Open Source

2021

• December

  • Dec 24: Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

  October

  • Oct 27: My Whitepaper About GitHub Copilot

  June

  • Jun 7: Software Developers Are the Problem and the Solution

  February

  • Feb 27: Rust, Zig, and the Futility of "Replacing" C

2020

• August

  • Aug 20: The Software Industry Is Broken

  May

  • May 7: Software Engineer Body of Knowledge

  January

  • Jan 17: What Yzena Is

2019

• November

  • Nov 24: Finishing Software
  • Nov 15: Auditing Software Is Hard

  August

  • Aug 24: Why Perfect Software Is Nearly Impossible

2018

• November

  • Nov 5: Code of Conduct for Yzena

  May

  • May 7: The Professional Programmer in Open Source