Planning for the wrong kind of scale
Recently I wrote at length to my newsletter subscribers about some of the factors that went into my choice to move RubyTapas to a WordPress platform. Here’s a small excerpt…
Some quick thoughts on input validation
The Hanami project is looking at upgrading and/or replacing their input validation system. I had some thoughts on this topic, but I don’t want to excessively clutter up their thread…
A late-night rant about OOP and parametric dispatch
Update: this post was the product of an exhausted mind, and as such it misused terms, wasn’t well backed-up, and was generally incoherent. I’m withdrawing it until such time as…
Should we use a coding standard?
Hey Avdi, should we use a coding standard? Yes. Which standard should we use? I don’t think there’s one “right” coding standard. I think every project should select their own…
The Inescapable Pragmatism of Procedures
Dr. Ben Maughan writes: At the moment I am rewriting some LaTeX notes into org mode to use in lecture slides. This involves several repetitive tasks, like converting a section…
Contempt as a sign of organizational incompetence
A few months back I wrote on my personal journal about how incompetently-written firmware in a VTech child’s camera led to my 5 year old daughter losing cherished memories. I…
Are you smart enough to be a programmer?
I often talk to non-programmers who think I must have to be extraordinarily clever to be a software developer, and that they could never do it. In my experience, people…
It’s time to stop programming for the teletype era
This my 3-year-old daughter Ylva, trying to make one of our computers do what she wants. Don’t get me wrong: Ylva is perfectly adept at using computers. This one, however,…
Shut the hell up and listen (Avdi)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be returning to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference again this week, but don’t expect him to make quite the splash he…