Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

JoS: For those of you against "job hopping"

"Hands down, no doubt, the people who have moved up the ladder to the
most responsible positions are the ones who spent two years or less on
each job over the past 8-10 years."

[delovski]

MF - Online Distribution System Mac Devs use to sell OS X Apps?

"This thread is directed towards lone developers and small companies mak-
ing a living off of selling Mac Leopard and Snow Leopard Apps. Just let me
know how you host and sell your Mac Leopard or Snow Leopard Apps, whe-
ther it is self-done, or if done through a distribution system - what is the
system you use and what do you think of it so far?"

[delovski]

Steve Yegge - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

"That's what Bezos was up to with his edict, of course. He didn't (and
doesn't) care even a tiny bit about the well-being of the teams, nor
about what technologies they use, nor in fact any detail whatsoever
about how they go about their business unless they happen to be scre-
wing up. But Bezos realized long before the vast majority of Amazonians
that Amazon needs to be a platform."

[XNote]

Instagram: From Zero to a Billion

[Ike]

nyt - Behind Instagram’s Success, Networking the Old Way

"A colleague at Google, where Mr. Systrom worked straight out of college,
introduced him to Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who had already
invested millions in Facebook. In the spring of 2010, even before Insta-
gram was born, Mr. Andreessen wrote him a check for $250,000."


cultofmac.com - Instagram Wanted $2 Billion From Facebook, And Here’s Why

"If he believed Facebook would one day be worth as much as a company like
Google at $200 billion or more, then the equivalent of 1% of Facebook would
be sufficient to meet his price, Mr. Zuckerberg told Mr. Systrom, the people
said."

[Ike]

gizmodo.com - How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

"Flickr's best feature isn't what you think. It's not photo-sharing at all. Just
as photo sharing was a feature hidden within a game, there was another
feature hidden within photo-sharing that was even more powerful: social
networking. Flickr was, nearly a decade ago, building what would become
the Social Web."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/67g4x6/software_developers_after_40_50_and_60_who_are/

Software Developers After 40, 50 and 60 Who Are Still Coding[/b]

[Ike]

techtrenches - The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
DENIS STETSKOV
SEP 19, 2025

"The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging
more memory than most computers had a decade ago.

Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-
mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue.

We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator
leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality
crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing
incompetence.

The Numbers Nobody Wants to Discuss

I've been tracking software quality metrics for three years. The degradation
isn't gradual--it's exponential.

Memory consumption has lost all meaning:

VS Code: 96GB memory leaks through SSH connections
Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines
Chrome: 16GB consumption for 50 tabs is now "normal"
Discord: 32GB RAM usage within 60 seconds of screen sharing
Spotify: 79GB memory consumption on macOS
These aren't feature requirements. They're memory leaks that nobody bothered to fix.

System-level failures have become routine:

Windows 11 updates break the Start Menu regularly
macOS Spotlight wrote 26TB to SSDs overnight (52,000% above normal)
iOS 18 Messages crashed when replying to Apple Watch faces, deleting conversation histories
Android 15 launched with 75+ known critical bugs
The pattern is clear: ship broken, fix later. Sometimes.

The $10 Billion Blueprint for Disaster

CrowdStrike's July 19, 2024 incident provides the perfect case study in normalized incompetence.

A single configuration file missing one array bounds check crashed 8.5
million Windows computers globally. Emergency services failed. Airlines
grounded flights. Hospitals canceled surgeries.

Total economic damage: $10 billion minimum.

The root cause? They expected 21 fields but received 20.

One. Missing. Field.

This wasn't sophisticated. This was Computer Science 101 error handling
that nobody implemented. And it passed through their entire deployment
pipeline."