Archive - Paul’s Substack

Hundreds of Threads

4 hrs ago • Paul Tarvydas

Evidence In Support of Visual Programming

4 hrs ago • Paul Tarvydas

19 hrs ago • Paul Tarvydas

The Deployment Delusion: How Software Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug

Dec 8 • Paul Tarvydas

We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments

Dec 6 • Paul Tarvydas

The Problem With Global Variables

Dec 4 • Paul Tarvydas

November 2025

Program Design and Engineering

Nov 22 • Paul Tarvydas

Show Don’t Tell

Nov 22 • Paul Tarvydas

How C Accidentally Locked Programming Into a Single Paradigm

A Paradigm Past Its Expiration Date 2025-11-20

Nov 20 • Paul Tarvydas

Nov 15 • Paul Tarvydas

On Diagrammatic Syntax

Nov 12 • Paul Tarvydas

Syntax Is Cheap. Paradigms Matter.

Nov 10 • Paul Tarvydas

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