This makes it a weak argument against windmills Photo by Karsten Würth on Unsplash A widely-touted argument against windmills is their alleged propensity to cause the rampant deaths of avian species. Incoming US-president Donald Trump, for example, has loudly criticized … Read more
November 16, 2017 [embedded content] Be sure to check out these Sketchnotes from a 15 minute version of this talk from Codeland by Stephanie Nemeth I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill … Read more
The sound of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer defined 1980s popular music. While the DX7 could, in principle, produce a limitless range of sound textures, few musicians used more than the 32 built-in present sounds. As a result, the sound of … Read more
Momentum (aka. smooth or interia) scrolling plugins (example here), while marketed as enhancements, are a plague upon the internet. They disrupt the natural, efficient, and predictable web browsing experience in countless ways, by they often degrading usability, accessibility, and performance. … Read more
People tend to look down on print debugging as it’s not using sophisticated tools at all. You’re not using debuggers, fancy loggers, or profilers. You’re just using the humble print statement. Or print() function. or console.log(), or println!() or whatever … Read more
I just wrapped up a tech conference here this week in Salt Lake City. I was one of the speakers. It was a special moment for me. Strangely enough, the very first time I came to US, it was also … Read more
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. CNN — Let’s be honest — people have a habit of bringing their … Read more
Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service Copy a link from your favorite streaming service, paste it into the app, and voilà! The app instantly provides links to the song or track on all other supported platforms. If … Read more
In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you’re updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple return value from another API. Let’s start with when … Read more