The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) An Article by Nicholas Zakas humanwhocodes.com We do say “no” very quickly, not just to designs, but to everything. That led me into thinking about the psychology of software engineers and what makes us the way we are. softwaremakingprocess
Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle, 1995–7 The exterior walls of the Chapel of St. Ignatius are made of large, complexly interlocking concrete slabs, a variegated golden-brown in color, and the roofs are clad in light grey metal. At the corners where the joints between the wall panels interlock are windows of various rectangular shapes and sizes, and the egg-shaped metal anchors that were used to lift the walls in place project slightly forward, casting small shadows. Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa, Understanding Architecture Bells ornament