For over 20 years, the meditative focus of programming has been one of the best parts of my job. Every week I’d spend countless hours in a flow state, which quiets the default mode network. The DMN is responsible for … Read more
I was listening to a 404 Media Podcast (404media.co) interview with Samuel Bagg about his article The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. (apaonline.org). It’s a fascinating and unsettling claim that the way we process information and truth is … Read more
This section was labeled under, or is related to Programming In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman’s talk on the EmacsConf, it was titled “What I’d like to see in Emacs”. One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out … Read more
I quit my job at Amazon in May to join a startup called Icon. Best career decision I ever made, but not for the reasons you might think. At Amazon, I was on the Amazon Q Developer team, building their … Read more
Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive amounts of text—mechanisms for doing … Read more
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Published on 4th of April, 2025 · Updated on 7th of April, 2025 I have met a lot of developers in my life. Lately, I asked myself: “What does it take to be one of the best? What do they … Read more
I am totally fascinated by programmers who don’t use many of the IDE features I take for granted today: autocomplete, language servers, and recently copilot So to the devs who don’t use these tools, how do you do it? Do … Read more
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Engineer’s Codex is a publication about real-world software engineering. I recently came across a quote by Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux and Git) that succinctly described a problem I’ve been working on recently: “Bad programmers worry about the code. Good … Read more