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Dec 11, 2016 at 10:53
A short critique of Stallmanism: https://jancorazza.com/2016/09/24/a-short-critique-of-stallmanism/

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Oct 24, 2023 at 03:01
Really thoughtful critique of the Language Server Protocol, what IDEs need to express, and the design decisions made.
LSP could have been better
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
Apr 16, 2022 at 15:52
The best interface is no interface: https://web.archive.org/web/20120831083217/http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-no-interface.html/ The author's critique of needing to find an app to accomplish a task is just as relevant today.
The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface
Oct 29, 2019 at 21:57
A critique of XML usage, and annotating documents rather than exchanging data: https://www.devever.net/~hl/xml It's rare to see discussions of good XML usage! I've seen marked-up word definitions (a multilingual dictionary) that were a nice fit for XML, but it's rare.
XML is almost always misused