Programming language debates are the religious wars of software development. Much like the xkcd comic on the futility of standardization, attempts to unify or consolidate our existing landscape of languages – and libraries and frameworks – usually...
Recently, I’ve been tasked with adding features to a product and codebase that I did not write. This of course happens all the time; if the code is at all useful, it will be...
We programmers love our settings. The old stereotype of control- and toggle- filled settings screens, each neatly corresponding to a variable in the application, has an uncomfortable if dated truth. We love having precise control...
Self-improvement books – at least the ones I read – fall into two categories. There are those who claim to unmask universal truths via research and corroboration across many different sources, and the rest draw from personal...
A few days ago, a question was asked on Hacker News: What is the future of the programmer? I had briefly agonized about this before, in context of contrasting how I came into computing in my childhood and what analog I can offer to my own children for their eventual careers. There is nothing special...
I call myself a software engineer, and I consider what I do a type of engineering. There are arguments against such a characterization, and some corresponding defense for how software development can legitimately compare to...
