Archive - Frank Talk

Make Apps Great Again

Stand up for the craft of programming and fight scammy, bloated software

May 6 •

January 2025

The passengers do not approve

Jan 17 •

November 2024

The Other Side of the Island...

Toying with AI image generation

Nov 8, 2024 •

June 2024

The Ultimate State Capitol Road Trip

A brute-force solution to the traveling salesman problem

Jun 29, 2024 •

April 2022

If Goofus and Gallant were programmers

What if the misfit pair wrote code?

Apr 28, 2022 •

January 2022

Real Programmers

In my day, programmers wrote code.

Jan 27, 2022 •

ORM Considered Harmful?

Think for yourself, write your own code

Jan 25, 2022 •

March 2008

PalmOS was a missed opportunity

A nine-year waste of time and money

Mar 16, 2008 •

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