A while ago Scott Hanselman wrote a post about “paralysis by analysis” which I found to be an interesting read. His blog is a treasure trove of not only technical information but also posts that humanize the developer experience, such as one of my all time favorites. In this particular post, he quoted a stack overflow…
Whether it’s because you want to be able to participate in software engineering discussions without having to surreptitiously look things up on your phone, or whether it’s because you have an interview coming up with a firm that wants you to be some kind of expert in OOP or something, you probably have at least…
A while back, I wrote a post in which I talked about offering too much code and too many options to other potential users of your code. A discussion emerged in the comments roughly surrounding the merits of the design heuristic affectionately known as “YAGNI,” or “you ain’t gonna need it.” In a vacuum, this…
My garbage disposal stopped working recently. I turned it on and could hear only the strained hum of the motor, so naturally I proceeded straight to the internet. I usually do that to see what others think of a situation, though my guess was that something was jamming up the works and preventing the motor…
Understanding the Idea of Monoculture One morning last week, I was catching up on backlogged podcasts in my Doggcatcher feed on the way to work and was listening to an episode of Hanselminutes where Scott Hanselman interviewed a front end web developer named Garann Means. The subject of the talk was what they described as…
