May 15, 2026
Trending Articles in IT Chronicles This Month
What stories resonate with you?
Susan Brearley
1 min read
Update
I am always curious about what articles hit on the nerve of the zeitgeist, aren't you?
Especially when the topics are info tech related.
I wonder about what makes tech interesting at all. Are you like me — the kind of person who can go to a party and somehow find yourself standing next to the only two other guests in the room who are genuinely fascinated by computers and coding-related or engineering topics, and the history of it all?
Once an engineer, always an engineer. I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to play in that space at IBM. It's given me a rich resource of material to write about in my retirement.
Here are the hottest articles in our publication this month.
From huizhou92
The Two Greatest Software Systems Ever Built — And Why They Couldn't Be More Different Process-driven engineering vs obsessive craftsmanship
Silicon Valley's Most Brilliant Failure Sun Microsystems optimized for the elegance of the solution instead of the ruthlessness of the business model.
And from Laurel W
How to Look Like You Know What You're Doing, Even if You Don't Five Setup and Practice Tips to Signal Competence as a Beginning Programmer
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