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This blog post is about the DOs and DON'Ts of code logging I picked up along the way in my coding career. This is a quick list, a "cheat sheet" if you will, which I will expand on down below. DO log your program output to stderr. This is meant for b...
Over the years, I have read numerous poorly written specs. Don't get me wrong, writing good specs is hard and it's more of an art form than anything else. The three main "themes" of bad specs I saw over the years, that come up repeatedly are the foll...
I still remember dabbling with my father's first computer in the mid-90s when I was around 7 or 8 years old. Back then, the computer "unit" took up the space of a small desk, and the big CRT monitor was placed on top of the unit. My very first intera...
Everyone probably heard at some point in their career that "Util packages are bad", "Don't use util modules!", or "Utils are an anti-pattern". The problem with these statements is that they are living on the "extremes"; and extremes in programming ar...
Inspired by other articles I've read about various developers' opinions on software. These opinions formed along the way in my career that I wouldn't always agree with in the past, but that is called learning. So here's my list in no particular order...
Over the years I have realized that delivered code is light-years better than beautiful but useless code. This of course is not to belittle the "code artists" I look up to who have the mental capability to deliver "JIT code" that is also clean, beaut...
