Published by Nela Dunato on September 2, 2023 in ADHD, Business, Personal, Thoughts As of September 1st 2023 I’ve been self-employed for 10 years. Yay! Because I’ve already written a “tips I’ve learned about business that I wish I knew … Read more
“Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” is a saying I often hear repeated in the Rails community. I don’t really feel like the expression makes complete sense. I fear that it may lead developers to make poor decisions. Here’s … Read more
My academic training is in Fine Art, painting, and printmaking. My professional career for the past 20 years has been in software engineering, including machine learning. This makes me uniquely situated to panic about discuss image-generative AI systems like Midjourney, … Read more
« back — written by Brent on June 02, 2023 Ten years ago, I wrote the most beautiful, clever, over-engineered piece of code ever. I was building a REST API for a startup, and discovered lots of repetition between controllers: I … Read more
May 24, 2023Volume 21, issue 2 PDF Knowing whether you’re doomed to failis important when starting a project. David Collier-Brown You can’t just measure a program’s performance, Dave. You have to run a benchmark! That’s what I hear all … Read more
Even with all of the water in Earth’s oceans, we satisfy less than half a percent of human water needs with desalinated water.* We currently use on the order of 960 cubic miles (4,000 cubic kilometers) of freshwater a year, … Read more
Image generated by Counterfeit — a girl with yellow eyes, pink hair, fox ears, a white hoodie, and a short skirt walking through a park; her hair is very long and is wearing a very uncertain look. So recently I’ve … Read more
I’ve talked to quite a few people who were considering founding their own startups. Many of them were quite inexperienced regarding, well, everything, as they were either fresh out of University or currently in a day job which was completely … Read more
This post may seem a bit harsh, but I’m tired of the “SQL shaming” that has somehow become a thing in the industry. I have a right to disagree, don’t I? Every year or so, a new general-purpose database engine … Read more
In the spirit of “everything old is new again,” browsers are once again supporting the ability to style the scrollbar. Much like custom CSS mouse cursors, I feel this is also a mistake. When you style things on the web, … Read more