Patrick Dubroy on Mythryl: “This is a fun paper! It never occurred to me that modern end-user…”

This is a fun paper! It never occurred to me that modern end-user software has many of the same footguns as programming languages.

Shriram Krishnamurthi@shriram.bsky.social

End-users have trouble sharing files on the cloud. Are these mistakes just random confusion from non-technical users? No: we show that there's a deep analogy to *programming* misconceptions! Surprised? Read more here: blog.brownplt.org/2025/08/25/c...

blog.brownplt.orgSharing is Scaring: Why is Cloud File-Sharing Hard?

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