Textarcana

Coming back from a long hiatus to post this.

LOL I am the author and I didn't know what that comment meant when I saw it above!! Derp and I will go fix my broken links now :) Thanks for the heads up!

This is a good idea.

The fact you thought about it enough to write 3 paragraphs about it shows the stickiness of my click-bait technique. You may not like my post but you will remember it.

Yep. I spend a lot of time qualifying and hedging on these ideas in the work I do for software organizations. These blog posts are my opportunity to just lay my true opinions out for people and see what happens :)

While I appreciate the spirit of what you are saying, the average time on page of 3 minutes 45 seconds (across 2k uniques) indicates most visitors are continuing past the paragraph you claim would be problematic.

That's where I was going when I wrote this post. Logging and log analysis is a large part of the continuous delivery tooling that I've been working on for the past 7 years.

Hey you saved everyone a click!

I am the author of the post and I approve this summary :)

Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross spring immediately to mind. Also James Tiptree, Jr. was a CIA analyst in the 50s and 60s so probably was a regular user of the early government mainframe systems.

Yes, I write intentionally click-baity blog posts. You got me.