Last year I started collecting ideas of things I would like to 3D print one day, on Twitter. Twitter is fundamentally ephemeral, so I’ll collect it here instead. I got up to 14 items on Twitter, and now I’m up … Read more
On my team at Coinbase, we ask everyone to use the React performance trinity – memo, useMemo, and useCallback – all the time. For some reason, this is controversial. I’m guessing this has something to do with Twitter. This article … Read more
What could we not know about water? It’s wet! It’s clear. It comes from rain. It boils. It makes snow and it makes ice! Does our government actually spend taxpayer money for you to study water?” This excerpt is from … Read more
Don’t get me wrong — I like generics, and I’m excited to see what impact they will have on the Go language and its libraries. However, it is clear that agreeing on the specification and implementing generics has been a … Read more
This post is part of a series, starting at Reflections on a decade of coding. This is one of my favorite questions to ask people: what are some things that you used to strongly believe but have now changed your … Read more
Intro Everyone 1 and their dog 2 loves Git. I know I do. It works, it’s efficient, it has a brilliant data model, and it sports every feature under the sun. In 13 years of using it, I’ve never found myself needing a feature … Read more
10x people exist. There are people that have 10 times the productivity and impact of their peers. However, contrary to many misconceptions, 10x people often don’t do all things 10x better. Instead, they are often found doing 10% of things … Read more
As a moderator of the Rust subreddit, I regularly happen upon posts about developers’ attempts to transpose their respective language paradigms to Rust, with mixed results and varying degrees of success. In this guide, I’ll describe some of the issues … Read more
10 Apr 2021 I recently had to get a new job. My wife got a residency in another state, and my previous job is going back to in-person. I have two years’ experience working for a startup on enterprise-scale software. … Read more
Over the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a bit of a fever pitch. This Hacker News thread covering a piece titled “PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database”, busting … Read more