Joel Spolsky is (semi-)retired

For those that don't know, Joel wrote many really good software development related articles/blogs in the early to mid aughts. The archives can be found on his site. I'd recommend anyone read them who works on a software development team in any capacity (management, dev, DBA, QA, etc).

The HASH write up sounds awful like multi-agent simulation. I&#x27;ve recently had to return to looking at these things and in a &quot;oh my god I need to do some MAS work&quot; type panic I was relieved and gratified to find the the GAMA platform - so far I&#x27;m impressed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gama-platform&#x2F;gama&#x2F;releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gama-platform&#x2F;gama&#x2F;releases</a><p>wonder what HASH will add to this kind of thing?

Dupe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21723223" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21723223</a>

Given the plug-hole that StackOverflow is currently spiralling down, I really think adult leadership from someone like Joel is sorely needed. But I can see why he would not want to bother with it.

Did Picasso retire? Did Pablo Casals retire? No. They painted or played till their dying breath.<p>Real programmers never retire. They just lose their bits.<p>Joel is a real programmer.

The article&#x27;s actual title is: &quot;So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?&quot;

Hey Joel - check out the MagicShifter - it does everything you want to do, plus more .. like MIDI! Paint your own POV pics!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;magicshifter.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;magicshifter.net&#x2F;</a><p>sources: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magicshifter&#x2F;MS3000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;magicshifter&#x2F;MS3000</a><p>You can solder a long strip of LED&#x27;s (we had up to 500) and address the whole thing over a handy Wifi interface .. the MS3000 provides its own web-based programming&#x2F;config interface too.<p>We added an Arpeggiator, and MIDI too (rtpMIDI as well as hard MIDI), because why not, and this means you can sync the LED strip to your drum machine with ease, Joel .. ;)<p>(EDIT: douchebaggery--)