Am I, as a programmer, in danger of being obsoleted by a program of my own creation? A recent BBC article gives programmers an 8%
The platform as a service model adds new importance to the performance of our software. Despite ever decreasing hardware costs, metered services make every bit
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. It was quite a shocking moment when I learned this in my programming career. I would take great care in
The code works, but it smells funny. A simple if statement makes the bug go away, but we know somehow we’re just masking a bigger
Complexity is sometimes portrayed as a corner stone to the theory of computation. What good would algorithm analysis be if we had no way to
In the middle of a major change to the Leaf type system I encountered the refactoring demon. It reared it’s ugly little head chanting, “you’re
My fancy new website is broken due to a script blocking extension. I found this out when I showed a friend the Radial Blitz website.
Idempotence is an essential tool in programming. It has many uses, from improving fault tolerance, clarifying code, to writing declarative deployment scripts. It’s important to
Useless interfaces, factories, and other abstractions are everywhere. They are the result of trying to prematurely generalize code. In a recent article I wrote about
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