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Why did settings dialogs move away from Save | Cancel buttons? Did developers think those buttons appeared on dialogs by accident?
Diagram
How often do you refer to a diagram — UML, E/R, Cloudy stuff, etc. — to understand system design? I sometimes find sketching a diagram to be a useful, but it’s mainly the exercise of creating it that’s useful: rarely do I refer to a diagram once made. Are most pictures worth zero words?
Stores
App stores claim to be the cure for malware. Is the cure worse than the disease? The damage could be hard to see: how many useful programs that never got written because of store restrictions?
TypeScript
How many TypeScript libraries are there for papering over the problem that something as Something doesn’t do any runtime type-checking?