Off-Topic
My Sim Racing Cockpit - Formula FX1
April 1, 2026
Software Is Never 'Done' — 4 Projects, Life After Deploy, and Why One-Shot Prompting Is a Myth
March 1, 2026
RANT: Did AI Kill Programmers?
February 8, 2026
AGI or Skynet Isn't Coming Anytime Soon
June 18, 2025
Computing History and Retro Dev on YouTube
May 19, 2025
RANT - LLMs are LOOT BOXES!
May 2, 2025
[Off-Topic] The Pity Evolution of Modern Society
July 26, 2018
[Off-Topic] Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Brazil
August 28, 2017
Estimates are Promises - A Better Metaphor
June 26, 2017
The Economics of Software Development
June 22, 2017
Starting with Blender
June 21, 2017
Conference Talks, Interviews, and the Pen!
June 1, 2017
[Off-Topic] Carpe Diem and the Myths of Happiness
February 14, 2017
[Off-Topic] Why are we all moving away from Apple?
January 12, 2017
[Off-Topic] Learning Statistics
November 1, 2016
The Year of Linux on the Desktop - It's Usable!
July 26, 2016
Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room
May 23, 2016
[Off-Topic] Free Software: An Exercise in CAPITALISM
April 22, 2016
The Year of Linux on the Desktop, by Microsoft??
April 12, 2016
War is Over, or is it? A New Dawn for Microsoft
March 31, 2016
Brazil Situation: No Macs for the Rest of Us
November 10, 2015
[Off-Topic] Talking with a University Professor
December 8, 2014
[Small Bites/Off-Topic] "People over Processes" — what are "People"?
November 21, 2014
[Off-Topic] 3D Printing, the Legend?
October 7, 2014
[Off-Topic] Agile: the Truth Behind the Method
September 28, 2014
[Off-Topic] DO NOT Do What You ("THINK") You Love
September 13, 2014
[Off-Topic] First Time in São Paulo, What to do?
August 24, 2014
[Off-Topic] Commenting on the Approved Marco Civil
March 30, 2014
[Off-Topic] Breaking Bad was a very successful startup
March 28, 2014
[Off-Topic] Lean Is Dead, Long Live Efficiency
March 27, 2014
[Off-Topic] Remote Work — Small Office, Home Office (SoHo)
November 18, 2013
[Off-Topic] Tech Startups, B2C overcrowding. Boring.
November 14, 2013
[Off-Topic] Programmers Are Terrible Communicators (UDP vs TCP)
November 2, 2013
[Off-Topic] Agile Done Wrong
November 1, 2013
[Translation] Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup
October 31, 2013
[Off-Topic] Math, Trolls, Haters, and Internet Discussions
October 30, 2013
[Off-Topic] #noEstimates Debunked
October 7, 2013
[Off-Topic] Estimates Are Promises. Promises Must Be Kept.
August 23, 2013
Predictably Irrational
July 12, 2013
Introduction to Agility
June 28, 2013
Processes, Methodologies, and the Human Brain
June 21, 2013
What Does It Mean to Be a Manager?
June 7, 2013
Processes and Methodologies Won't Help You
May 24, 2013
[Translation] Estimation — The Best We Can Do
April 5, 2013
[Off-Topic] The World Today Is Very Good! Happy 2013!
January 2, 2013
[Off-Topic] A Vent III, Reflecting on 2007
December 30, 2012
Ruby is Beautiful? What is Beauty?
September 2, 2012
[Off-Topic] The Myth of the "Legacy"
August 15, 2012
[Off-Topic] Great Artists Steal
May 13, 2012
[Off-Topic] New Year's Message — Philosophy
December 31, 2011
[Off-Topic] Demystifying the "Evil" Microsoft
February 20, 2011
[Off-Topic] The Fountainhead: Howard Roark's Defense
February 4, 2011
[Off-Topic] Atlas Shrugged: Is Money the Root of All Evil?
February 3, 2011
[Documentary] The iPod Revolution
January 30, 2011
[Off-Topic] The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra
April 12, 2010
[Off-Topic] Wake up Call
February 14, 2010
[Off-Topic] Reading the Agile Principles
January 30, 2010
[Off-Topic] Companies, People, Success
January 30, 2010
[Off-Topic] Who's the Idiot?
January 8, 2010
Off-Topic: Literature for Agile Managers
January 6, 2010
[Off Topic] Dunbar and Cross Functional Teams
January 2, 2010
[Off Topic] Watch Out for Kanban-butt
December 16, 2009
[Off-Topic] You Don't Understand Anything About Scrum
December 10, 2009
[Off-Topic] Restaurants and Technology
November 18, 2009
[Off-Topic] Obedience to Authority
November 8, 2009
[Off-Topic] Cell Phones and Airplanes
November 8, 2009
[Off-Topic] The Problem of Credentials
November 4, 2009
[Off-Topic] Thinking Makes You Better
September 26, 2009
[Off-Topic] The Argument from Intimidation
September 12, 2009
[Off-Topic] Man's Rights
September 9, 2009
[Off-Topic] The Cult of Gray Morality
September 8, 2009
[Off-Topic] The Damn Regulation Law Is Back!
August 22, 2009
[Off-Topic] All Marketers Are Liars
July 31, 2009
[Translation] What Makes a Good Programmer?
July 23, 2009
[Off-Topic] Bought My First Mac — Now What?
July 19, 2009
[Off-Topic] Reference Books 2008-2009
July 11, 2009
[Off-Topic] Agility, Chaos, Self-Organization
July 8, 2009
[Off-Topic] Negotiable Scope Contract
July 5, 2009
[Off-Topic] Authority vs. Responsibility
July 5, 2009
[Off-Topic] Standards, Commodities, and Innovations
June 14, 2009
[Off-Topic] The 5 Team Dysfunctions in Code
May 31, 2009
Off-Topic: Should I Go to College?
April 17, 2009
[Off-Topic] Net Negative Producing Programmer
March 30, 2009
Translation: Flaccid Scrum
February 3, 2009
Translation: Technical Debt
December 18, 2008
Off-Topic: Scientific Method vs Cargo Cult
December 16, 2008
Off-Topic: Understanding the Economic Crisis
October 9, 2008
Off-Topic: The Agile Manifesto, or How to Become Google
October 7, 2008
Off-Topic: The Power of Myth, Redux
September 20, 2008
Off Topic: Why Programmers Should Play Go
July 15, 2008
Off-Topic: Bleeding for Rails! Part 2
May 16, 2008
Off-Topic: Bleeding for Rails!
May 7, 2008
Off Topic: Never Trust TIOBE
April 13, 2008
Off-Topic: Google App Engine and Cloud Computing
April 13, 2008
Off Topic: We Are Mathematically Illiterate
March 1, 2008
Translation: I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It
February 10, 2008
Off Topic: "I Am Legend" - TERRIBLE!
January 19, 2008
Translation: Counting Is a Waste of Time
September 1, 2007
Off Topic: Pale Blue Dot
August 29, 2007
Off Topic: Enemies of Reason
August 23, 2007
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
August 19, 2007
AkitaOnRails, Retrospective 1985-2007
August 12, 2007
A Rant, Part II
June 19, 2007
Off Topic: Be Arrogant!
April 14, 2007
Off Topic: A Rant
March 14, 2007
Getting Real Translation - Release Candidate 2 Launch
February 1, 2007
Off Topic: "Here's to the crazy ones ..."
January 27, 2007
Off-topic: MacWorld 2007 - Steve Jobs Keynote
January 9, 2007
Kathy Sierra: Dilbert and the Zone of Mediocrity
October 19, 2006
Evolution Through Competition
September 27, 2006