This is a book about Unix programming, but in it we’re going to toss around the words “culture,” “art,” and “philosophy” a lot. If you are not a programmer, or you are a programmer who has had little ...

Eric S. Raymond is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the open-source movement. In 1997, Eric published a technical paper called "The ...

My discussion of software surprises on Saturday reminded me about the Law or Principle of Least Astonishment, also called the Law or Rule of Least Surprise. This certainly goes back to the early days ...