Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.
Malleable Software in the Age of AI - Geoffrey Litt
Software Should Work
An independent conference on software reliability in Columbia, MO on July 16-17, 2026
doctrine — vit
The vit doctrine: software should live. A social system for personalized software where the unit of exchange is capability.
doctrine — vit
The vit doctrine: software should live. A social system for personalized software where the unit of exchange is capability.
The Spoofax language workbench | Proceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion
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The Interface of Kai Krause's Software @mprove
Matthias Müller-Prove, Innovative Benutzungsschnittstellen, 1998/99, University of Hamburg
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...
Fine-grained and accurate source code differencing | Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
By R. S. Doiel, 2026-02-21 (revised: 2026-03-03, epilogue added 2026-03-27)
A Call to Build Models Like We Build Open-Source Software
1 Introduction 2 A brief explanation of open-source software development 3 Community-developed and continually-improved models 3.1 Incremental and cheaply-communicable updates 3.2 Merging models 3.3 Vetting community contributions 3.4 Versioning and backward compatibility 3.5 Modularity and distribution 4 An example future 5 Conclusion
OpenAI to acquire Astral
Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools
Code Worth Writing - Ray Myers | SSW 2026
Denicek: Computational Substrate for Document-Oriented End-User Programming
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"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
A conversation with Harper Reed
Paul Frazee on Bluesky and the AT Protocol
Podcast Episode · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · January 17, 2025 · 1h 8m
