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Recently, I’ve become fond of tools that just work, out of the box. This blogpost is an ode to them.

Why dependencies should be checked into version control.

I had a productive day today! I did many different and unrelated things, but they all had the same unifying theme:

pFolks, today's the day./p pAs of this morning, I've made over a million dollars on GitHub sponsors. Wowoweewow./p pimg src="/pos...

Blaming “culture” for racial disparities is scientifically wrong and politically unhelpful

DeFi / Crypto - Telegram's Durov was recently arrested in Paris. Is he a free speech martyr or digital crime lord? While we champion privacy, are we overlooking the blurred lines of digital freedom? The thin line of privacy just got thinner.

A thought-experiment on how to regain control over our time and attention in a world of constant notifications.

Read one woman's experience with the US medical industry & how it opened her eyes to even more societal issues. Read about her plans to rebuild.

Perhaps surprisingly, distributed systems are naturally relational

Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god

Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care

Explores why scale-out became so dominant, whether those rationales still hold, and some joyful advantages of scale-up architecture.

You’re working on the most complex problem in computer science: fixing permissions on a deployment pipeline. It’s been 4 days you started on that simple task...

Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?

Why do you write tests? I’ve been thinking about this question a lot recently. I’ve been trying to motivate some teammates that tests are worth writing. But I’m going to convince them of that, I need to be able to answer that question for myself, right? Tests sometimes get portrayed as one of the chores of software development. As a new developer, that’s how I saw tests for a long time: something I did because it was what I was told to do — besides, if I got the coverage to 100%, I got a little green checkbox to put on my README.

Hello and happy new year! It’s 2023, and Windows 11 is finally a mature operating system that most people would be happy to use. Sun Valley has finally arrived, and it’s all about a lon…

Little languages; what they are, why they matter and how they will shape the future of programming.

In this post, I want to talk about a dynamic that I’ve seen play itself over and over again in the software world. In fact, I would venture a guess that this kind of situation probably happen…

You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring

Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.