Software developers learn early in their careers that nothing is more urgent than fixing a production outage. Drop everything! All hands on deck! However, the same level of urgency is not often given to problems with our development tools,
I propose the following social contract: This applies to emails, GitHub issues, pull request reviews, and any communication that is nominally sent from one human to another. And when I say “AI-composed”, I mean that an AI generated most of
I often think about Evan Hahn’s article “95% is very different from 99%”. He classifies it as “a rant”, but I think he really hit on something. He says: I think there’s a huge difference between “usually works” and “almost always works”. On…
Ever wonder what words show up most often in song titles? Anyone? Well, I did. And Discogs has a database of over 156 million song, so I put together a couple Node.js scripts in search of some answers! You can look at the raw numbers yourse…
Scenario: you’re writing up some documentation for your HTTP library. You’ve been working on it for hours, and it is getting mind-numbingly boring. You need to provide some examples of fetching by hostname and IP address. No problem: But wh…