Software Engineering Pains. Index

Misc

• Windows Lockscreen Background Image Problem (2021)

• npm Disease (2021)

• Python Coders Zoomer Dummies (2022)

• Windows Pain. Updating Nvidia Driver (2021)
• HTML Link Problem, _blank noopener noreferrer (2021)
• Problem of Making Backup Files (2020)
• Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl on Software Complexity. 2011
• Java problem: $JAVA_HOME (2020)
• lost in explanation: programing problem, transition of maps
• Graphics Programing Pains (2007)
• AutoHotkey Path Problem; Windows Shortcut Path
• Ruby RVM Complexity
• Linux Pain: Google Chrome Korean Font Scrunched Up
• Clojure Leiningen Crap
• W3C and WHATWG Dead Links. 2016

web tech pain

• Google's PageSpeed Insights Fails Its Own Site
• URL Percent Encoding and Unicode
• URL Percent Encoding and Ampersand Char

unix

• UNIX Tar Problem: File Length Truncation, Unicode Name Support
• Hunspell Path Pain
• Mac OS X SSH Session Disconnection (2010)
• Software Dependency Complexity: Fink, Unison
• What is the Max Number of Directories a Directory Can Have? (2011)
• Unix zip Utility Problem
• Mac OS X Changes To Unix (2010)
• Unicode BOM Hack
• Linux Shell Util uniq Unicode Bug

Emacs

• Problem of Calling Windows cmd.exe in Emacs Lisp
• A Exhibition of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode
• A Emacs Frustration (blogger package)
• Complexity of Software Engineering; Emacs, Unicode, Unison
• Emacs Cygwin gunzip Problem

• Emacs's Menu Usability Problem
• Emacs Flaw: Spell Checker (2010)
• FSF GNU Emacs Dead Link Problem. 2015
• Emacs Flaw: Dead Links of Emacs Manual. 2006
• Emacs Flaw: Problems of grep
• Emacs Bug: gnus, Broken Atom Webfeed Relative Link (2014-07-18)

Xah Talk Show, Voodoo of Agile

unsorted

• Package Managers and Crippling Control (2024)