Coding Horror When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive

Coding Horror I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second

Coding Horror Remember “cybersecurity”? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows

Coding Horror I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was

Coding Horror We’ve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took

Coding Horror When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea

Coding Horror Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don’t solve the

Coding Horror There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46

Coding Horror Today’s processors contain billions of heat-generating transistors in an ever shrinking space. The power budget might go