Migrating to BlueSky. Please find me there: @mcoblenz.bsky.social.

Thanks, IRS, for providing an example of bad UI that I can use in teaching my software engineering class! Error messages should explain what went wrong and what the user can do to fix the problem.

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New course policy: students may use AI for any class-related purpose. However, course staff will use AI to assist in running the class in proportion to their estimate of how much students use it!.

If you're at #FSE2024: please come to my student Shaokang Jiang's talk on Wed.: "An Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Autocomplete in IDEs." Turns out that autocomplete DOESN'T reduce typing; instead, it helps by reducing time spent reading docs!.

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RT @Daniel_Sugarman: More than 250 Jewish students at Columbia have signed this open letter. If you have 5 minutes today, take the time t….

Looking for software engineers who regularly use pair programming for a study. Anyone willing to talk?.

“Most of you know what imposter syndrome is, so I won’t explain it.” And how do you think those who don’t feel about their belonging now? :).

RT @catarinavgamboa: 📣 Participate in our study “Exploring the Usability Barriers in Liquid Types”.Do you work with LiquidHaskell, have wor….

I see I still have a LOT more work to do on this proposal:

Very excited that HATRA will be running again at SPLASH 2024 in Pasadena, California!.

Figured out AWS permissions but that doesn’t seem to result in auto-granting tenure. Rude.

It’s been almost 25 years. And yet the SimCity 2000 music still plays in my head.

Next SE lecture will be about security. "Thanks for coming to class today. I've now locked the door. If you absorb the lessons in today's lecture, you will be able to figure out how to leave the room at the end of class.".

In software engineering class: "Okay, class, today we're going to discuss testing! I figured the best way to understand testing is with a test. Please get out a pencil…".

We have a (male) student at UCSD looking for an #ICSE roommate. Anyone looking?.

RT @jonathoda: To: the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see things differently. Subject: you should wri….

Writing irony: "In short, …" makes the writing longer.

The "corresponding author" matters according to this policy:

Anyone (e.g. @JAldrichPL ) know how the ACM defines "corresponding author"? Hoping to get this paper we wrote at UCSD (a member of ACM open) made open access; we're getting pushback b/c two student authors are not at UCSD.