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One thing that always surprises me is how much more "symbiotic" I am with my computer than most of my other dev friends are. It's to the point where my

There's so many ways we can "not know" how to apply our knowledge to something. Given a situation where X is useful, you could:1. Not realize X is a thing

Heck with it, feel like killing an evening. Give me any tech topic and I'll give you a connected essay pitch that 1) has a solid shot of going viral

Unpopular opinion: gifs and memes in conference talks are an antipattern.No, I'm not saying *humor* is an antipattern. Humor is great, put more of it in talks. Gifs and memes

Vim tip: it's okay to make temporary maps for just one session. Like if you find you need to Titlecase words a lot, just do `noremap ; eb~W` or similar

Several people objected with "what if XYZ left the company two years ago?" That points to a process opportunity in how we treat both comments and offboarding.But first, she's now

Rant time! There's this concept that keeps coming up in software engineering: represent your program as a directed graph, where nodes are computations and edges are data. Technical term is

Jumping on the bandwagon to sayVideo is asking "why did people come up with Algebra, what did they even use it for?" The tweeter mocks her and says "the technology

OOP inheritance gets a lot of flack because it was the first iteration of a principle that we're still trying to figure out: how to create syntactic relationships between things

n² likes = n maxims/rules of thumb I try to consistently apply to understand why software engineering is so complex, interesting, infuriating, and wonderful 1. "Computers are bad." A huge

Both. Neither. Either-or. Both of these terms aren't just titles. They carry connotation and history. When we pick a side on "craft vs engineering", we're also picking a philosophy of

Something I didn't bring up in the engineering crossovers talk, but I was reminded of in a conversation:One engineer I talked to said that we focus too much on comparing