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Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
…to a new software developer working in a new framework or language. Point out the pitfalls, provide advice as needed, keep them growing! Other wise they won't succeed or enjoy it. Also remember… [more]
Book Review-Stranger in a strange land
…It turns out that it originates here in Heinlein’s Martian language, with similar meaning but a lot more nuance. Which is perhaps out of order in this review, but seems like a decent place to start.… [more]
Disjunctive Normal Form and other fine reads
…community. First, Ruby is probably one of the best first languages out there. It’s syntax is friendly to no and slightly closer to English. I mean it has some odd logical elements like ‘unless’ that… [more]
Human Communications Are Hard
…Koeppe. I found this paper while reading Digital Body Language by Erica Dhawan. So far the book is good but I paused to dig into this paper that lays out some of the base research behind it (This is a… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…II | 2021 Your Users Can Code - Building Programming Languages for your Users Why Position Trumps Power ft. Lanterne Rouge Bela Fleck teaches us his ’three-finger’ style banjo technique… [more]
Neptune (Gremlin) Local Dev Setup
…data and CYPHER, which is a pretty easy to grasp graph language. All great marks in its favor. However, since the rest of the project was going to be a series of lambdas and api gateways, and it was… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…need to be really fast to win a prize. JS is my sketching language and I typically solve first there and then convert to something faster, like Rust. The reason is that the startup for node includes… [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…principles. Second, I am not a fan of types in my untyped languages. Those things said I think the developer ergonomics of Flow and Redux are pretty awful at first glance. I think this means a couple… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
…easier with a theoretical background, and exposure to the language of Computer Science. A boot camp's customers is you, the student. This means that their goal is to attract you. My dad pointed out to… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…McWhorter was talking about the evolution of the english language over time. One of the things that was really interesting was his discussion about how the idea of "correct" english evolved in the… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
…could not really see it until fairly recently when our language evolved to the point where a name for it existed. This points to a powerful link between the things we say, see, hear, and know. The oft… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
This is the first in the Seven Languages series of posts and covers the Io language , a small prototypal language. Let’s get this out of the way right now. I love Io . It’s amazing. The… [more]
Seven Languages
…a book club at work and we are running through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (but we are doing it in 14 weeks instead). So far the book is fantastic but I want to get even more familiar with the… [more]
Learning the Trade
…bite size videos. exercism.io is a cool tool for learning languages that I’ve been playing with lately. Like it a lot. Exercises is similar to exercism in scope but focused on js only. [more]
Biology and CSS
…isn’t CS inheritance that you have seen in other languages. This is inheritance as your body knows it. This is one of the most dynamic and powerful inheritance models in existence. Enjoy it!… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…of componentization can be implemented in any framework or language. At least any I can think of) This is a terrible idea even for a demo. Because components should be focused on the smallest… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…actually look like in context with realism. 2. Data and Languages I am grouping these two because they are manifestations of the same problem. Most design tools do not allow you to easily add and… [more]
Confidence Without Ego
When I was young I thought humility was placing yourself below other people. To believe that they were better than me. To subserviate myself to their opinions and requests. I thought of the… [more]
Approaching CSS the OO Way
…want to explore why this perception, of CSS as a designers language with no basis in Computer Science, is costing us headaches, money, and an innumerable amount of time. Because, the truth is, CSS… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…is almost as cool. In javascript, as in many programming languages logical and statements short circuit if the first element isn't true. So basically if you say if(false && true) Javascript start… [more]