When you search Google for "software professionals," you get about 900,000 results. If you search for "software amateurs," you only get about 10,000 results. Anuj Magazine looks at the skewed focus on the word "professional" and why software amateurs may be better than software professionals.

In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revealing classified information, the National Security Agency has announced it will significantly reduce its workforce to cut down on the number of people with access to confidential data. The agency plans to automate 90 percent of its systems administrator duties.

On the news that Google Reader, the aggregator of choice for many people's RSS feeds, was retiring, one coder took matters into his own hands and created a veritable clone. He kept the UI basic, posted his code publicly, and invited anyone who'd like to run it to do so—in true open-source fashion.