Week 9. Software crisis & maintenance

Slide presentation

Thursday, March 28

Skillshares

Shravani, Making a poster/booklet in InDesign, Slide presentation
Claire, Emergency go bag, Slide presentation
Chloe, ???
Sophie B-L, How to knit

Readings

• Zachary Loeb, “Waiting for Midnight: Risk Perception and the Millennium Bug”, chapter 1 from Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

• Zachary Loeb, “Life’s a Glitch”, Real Life magazine, September 01, 2022

• Miriam Posner, “Agile and the Long Crisis of Software”, Logic magazine, March 27, 2022. (Miriam posted a remark about this article on Twitter last week, so I replied saying that we’d be reading the piece, and she responded to share that she made an audio recording of herself reading the article. So feel free to listen if you’d prefer that to reading.)