Often, it's easiest to find existing products by coming up with the idea yourself and then checking see if it exists. It's kind of obvious that you should look for products that you need, but what's less obvious is that thinking through how you'd bui ...
Failures are expected during development. The key to writing correct code is to detect possible failures before we ship our program. This is the principle underlying the use of static analysis (like compilers), testing, and review; each is a process ...
Decoders are primarily used to define an integration with another API in cases where the functionality that you need isn't directly available within PureScript. In these cases, the expected structure of the payloads passed between integrations is def ...
Let's face it: As programmers, we typically build small variations on the same theme over and over. That isn't to say that programming isn't fulfilling or challenging (I strongly believe that it is both), but a daily Sudoku puzzle can also be challen ...
When you're working alone, everything takes longer, but we can also get weird and leverage approaches that don't make sense on a team.
Most programming maxims are not particularly useful as stated, and, in truth, I believe that the way these principles are delivered and espoused is frequently actively harmful. Worse, their tendency to be harmful seems to be most prevalent in those w ...
Anyone who works in some kind of production pipeline (which is pretty much everyone) can become a resource bottleneck. When working in these roles, our responsibility is to manage how we interact with our upstream resources efficiently so that we don ...
A couple of years ago, I went to this tiny diner bore witness to a thrilling display efficiency. The grill was set up in the dining area, and as I sat at the bar, I watched a cook and a couple of manic waitresses weave chaos into order. Tickets flew, ...
Languages sport nice abstractions: Type systems, modules, functions, classes, package managers, database integrations, etc. We can catch mistakes easily through the type system, automated tests, local manual testing, and code review. On the other han ...
Writing code is cheap, but getting it right is expensive. Every means of ensuring code correctness has significant drawbacks:
Recently, I decided to drop React as my daily driver for building UI. It's easy to grab for tools like React, even when we don't really care for them, because they present a complete solution. When we drop React, we have to consider how we'll manage ...
I recently wrote a blog post where I criticized the use of AI coding assistants on the premise that coding is mostly about thinking and not actually much about writing. Most of the criticisms in response to the post were some variation on this idea, ...
Written code is a strikingly poor representation of a running program. Consider this event listener:
Shit's gotten weird out there. The internet has devolved from something that was mostly quirky and altruistic to something that, in many ways, is straight-up evil. Companies have commoditized user attention through an economic framework that is compl ...
So, I started moving all of my apps into a single VHost monorepo setup because:
So, recently I purchased a reMarkable Paper Pro. About a decade ago, I decided to learn Gregg Shorthand (Simplified). It was a big time investment, and to be totally honest, even though I have become fairly proficient, it tends to be difficult to rea ...