Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return