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Be a good mentor, not a dickhead

I’ve worked with a lot of people of varying skill levels, from superstar programmers to not-sure-how-they-got-the-job types. Integrating and working with new people is always

Where the wild code grows

Sometimes I just like to sit back and code something. Free from deadlines. Free from requirements. Free from issue systems and planning teams. It’s so

Nobody cares about your code

Nobody cares about your code. It was quite a shocking moment when I learned this in my programming career. I would take great care in

What a compiler does: Parsing

Parsing is where the story of compilation begins. While it may mean something wonderful to us, our source code is merely a stream of character

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