1001 + 2 Insomniac Nights

Still more stories from the trenches

The Old Lion and the Ford

On the normalization of deviance

Night on Balderdash Mountain

Focus on making your software usable by the actual users

Don’t Fear the Beeper

In one of Aesop's fables, a shepherd boy gets his jollies by raising the alarm that a wolf is threatening the herd to trick the villagers to run out to offer protection, only to find they'd been tricked.  After the boy had pulled his prank a few times, a wolf really does come to threaten...

Driving a Lemon

There's a popular urban myth known as "The Killer in the Backseat."  The most common variations of the story involve a lone driver, almost always a woman, on a deserted backroad at night.  Another vehicle, usually some sort of truck, is following her, flashing its lights, trying to pass her, or even trying to ram...

Winchester Mystery App

You will never be able to escape the ghosts of an un-designed architecture