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Proposal
Suggestions for things that someone could do.
2026-03-27
Another Modest Proposal
2026-03-25
A Modest Proposal
2025-11-11
End of Life Ideas
2025-09-12
Searching for Closure
2025-08-15
Productivity Workshop Ideas
2025-07-19
Workshops I Want
2024-08-12
Tutorials I Would Like to Attend
2024-06-14
Human-Scale Software
2023-12-10
Research Software Design by Example
2023-11-21
One Damned Thing After Another
2023-10-02
Two Unfunded Proposals
2023-03-22
Workshop Proposal: Organizational Change
2022-12-28
Six for the To-Don't List
2022-12-18
Sessioncasting
2022-12-14
Teaching in the Third Dimension
2022-12-04
I Want a Memory Diagram Generator
2022-11-30
What I Want for Code in Textbooks
2022-11-20
Journal of Comprehensible Explanations
2022-10-02
Empirically Minimal
2022-05-08
A Language for Teaching
2022-02-01
What I Would Change in Lox for Teaching
2021-04-08
Lesson Maps
2020-07-30
Save the Humans
2020-07-30
Wanted: A Notation for 'Why'
2020-01-04
A Model Experiment
2019-12-30
Method, Motive, and Opportunity
2019-10-11
Proficiency
2019-06-14
Software Isn't Sustainable
2019-03-10
The Tool I Want
2019-01-10
Leadership Training for Open Science
2018-12-30
Harper: Lesson Discovery and Aggregation
2018-12-17
Thirteen Percent and Counting
2018-12-12
Twelve Percent of a Plan
2018-12-02
One Last Step
2018-08-07
Three Terms
2018-03-26
The Senior Professor's Handbook
2018-03-24
Grand Unified Editor Theory
2018-03-13
A Base Case for Empirical Software Engineering Research
2018-03-11
Wanted: A Tool for Figure Labeling Exercises
2018-02-12
More Dagstuhl
2017-11-20
Data Science for Software Development
2017-09-30
Git, Graphs, and Software Engineering
2016-10-19
Given Infinite Minions
2016-09-27
The Markov Test
2016-09-18
Show Me Your Model
2016-03-19
Continuous Installation Checking
2016-02-25
A Modest Proposal
2014-11-05
Politics for Current Physicsts
2014-10-20
Beautiful Lessons
2014-10-02
A Better Software Engineering Course
2012-01-23
Welcome to Gravenhurst
2012-01-07
I Have a Cunning Plan (or, Making Money by Doing Good)
2011-11-30
The Greatest Story Never Told
2011-11-29
Rewind
2011-07-20
Wait, Not That Bit!
2009-12-09
Cartagena
2009-09-22
Grant Proposal
2009-09-07
Upgrading Their Plots
2009-07-27
A Challenge for Modellers
2007-06-19
The Software Project Coloring Book
2006-09-07
Superficially Plausible Business Plan #31
2006-07-19
Books I Want Someone to Write #23
2006-04-20
What the World Needs Now Is Diffs, Diffs, Diffs
2005-12-22
Documents vs. Conversations
2005-12-02
How Do You Want to See Source Code?
2005-05-06
Dr Requirements