Thoughts on the fading away of the age of IE

Nowadays, as it pleased most frontend engineers, making web pages/applications compatible with IE Browser is not required almost everywhere. Internet Explorer, especially the lower versions, is inconsistent with W3C standards, barely has developer toolchains, and therefore very hard to debug. But the anti-modern frontend legacy browsers didn’t easily die. If you had checked browser distribution in recent years, you would notice that IE always had a reasonable proportion, not much, but also not in a trend towards zero in a short period. Continue reading

The Tiny Chips from Chinese Hackers: When Falsifiability meets Public Perception

During the 2018 Chinese National Day Holidays, Bloomberg Business Week reported that Chinese hackers planted microchips into motherboards supplying for data center servers of tech giants Apple and Amazon. The original Bloomberg post is available at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies, and Amazon, Apple, Super Micro and the Chinese Government all have denied the hack. As I followed the related posts, I found despite there may(or may not) be a hack on the motherboard chips, surely the event happening and growing is a big hack on the public perception. Continue reading

The Ponzi Software Development Scheme

The metaphor Ponzi Software Development Scheme, came to me after I have been read about a post from CACM, The Death of Big Software. The traditional big softwares will die away, because they are easily growing to become too hard to maintain, and will be replaced by cloud or microservices architecture based softwares. But will cloud or microservices save big software projects from failure? I rather say, no silver bullets, neither cloud nor microservices. Continue reading