Published 9 months ago
Two way data binding isn’t bad because two way data binding is bad. Two-way data binding is bad when, depending on your team and your domain, the cost of implicit knowledge in your codebase makes introducing change too hard.
Published almost 2 years ago
Ask a programmer how they debug, and they will reveal to you their soul. I'd like to say I'm being a little melodramatic here, but honestly, I'm not. Not only do I think this is a great interview question, but how you answer it strikes to the heart of a deeper question: how do you actually believe people and technology fit together? Here's my answer.
Published almost 2 years ago
In an experiment that takes three cups of coffee, in three days, you can produce a permanent quality of life upgrade. People talk about all the thousands of flavors in coffee beans and stuff, but nobody's got time for that.
Published about 2 years ago
React is great for doing heavy UI lifting in Rails apps by making your UI interactions easy to reason about and change. However, as someone who is quite familiar with Rails but passingly proficient in JS, there are some gotchas you're going to run into that other guides didn't cover for me. This isn't a cohesive "clone this feature" article. This is the quick-and-dirty, let's get you to functional and help you avoid some mines I stepped on article.
Published about 2 years ago
Dune is my favorite book of all time because it is a masterpiece. Here are some of the explicit reasons why.
Published about 3 years ago
It would be an understatement to say the hardest moment a developer faces isn’t when they know what to do, but when they don’t. And nowhere is this more immediate than early on on the process of learning how to code.
Published over 3 years ago
This is the first public war story I have, and the lesson about design patterns I learned here has influenced me ever since in many, many places beyond coding.
Published over 3 years ago
One of the things that haunts my thoughts at night is this: what makes one product better than another? What differentiates software? What, exactly, is the way you can discover how to change the question “Why should I use this?” into “Why *shouldn’t* I use this?”
Published almost 5 years ago
(Post 5 of 5) At this point, I was pretty much running out of things to write about. I still chuckle at the horrible Zoolander joke I made, though.
Published about 5 years ago
(Post 4 of 5) Like ever single entrant into the programming arena ever, I contend with the notion of the 10x programmer. Funny how this straightforward notion dissolves over time into context and nuance. Surprisingly, the pictures still work because I went with imgur!
Published about 5 years ago
(Post 3 of 5) In the third post of this series, I talk through how my approach to tackling learning quickly has evolved and give a rundown of all my coworkers. Man I had some rose tinted glasses.
Published about 5 years ago
(Post 2 of 5) In the second post of the series, I talk about the approach I use to tackle learning how to code in the most optimal fashion I know how. Even reading this years later, I still agree with most of what I wrote.
Published about 5 years ago
(Post 1 of 5) The first post in the series detailing my shift from slinging pizzas to slinging code. This was originally posted on a website that's no longer around.
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