Reading Time: 12 minutes In December of 2021, an itinerant sci-fi and fantasy gathering called Worldcon came under scrutiny for accepting a sponsorship from an American defense company.1 Critics remarked that the conference had clearly lost its way. Its guests … Read more
19 Jun 2024 By Sung Kim Programmers should be paranoid. “I double checked the code” “The code passes the tests” “The reviewer approved my code” “So is my code correct?” Writing code correctly is hard and verifying code correctness is … Read more
Pitch Your brain responds in a predictable way when it encounters new or difficult tasks. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted in cognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code. In The Programmer’s … Read more
“Have you tried turning it off and back on again?” is one of the most familiar tropes associated with tech support. But as someone who is often asked by family members for help with misbehaving devices, I find it to … Read more
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Table of Contents • Overview of the contents First pages • A preview of the book Physical book • Purchase through Amazon E-book • Pay what you want (PDF) GitHub • Code from each chapter Exercises • Discuss exercises with … Read more
More ranting and frothing at the mouth from me, I’m afraid. Well, maybe a bit more positive this time. As you may have noticed, I’m one of a small, but growing, crowd who believe that People Who Make Software Happen … Read more
As a programmer, you’ve spent plenty of time learning technical and programming skills. Junior engineers—and even some who have been in it a long time—must constantly focus on improving their “hard” technical skills. But writing code is only part of … Read more
My Texas Instruments TI Programmer calculator is an excellent tool when working in 6502 assembly and other retro experiments. However going on 45 years old now the buttons are increasingly unreliable and with no good fix for the problem I … Read more
Our most important goal in writing software is that it be correct. The software must do what the programmer wants it to do. It must meet the needs of the user. In the business world, double-entry bookkeeping is the idea … Read more