Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
It’s been a few months, and, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem lay-offs are over. The big companies with huge lay-offs make the news, but it’s happening to medium and small companies...
Read ArticleWe’ve all taken surveys. But, are we all aware of how much modern knowledge is derived (through statistics, usually) from answers to surveys? How accurate and reliable is that knowledge?...
Read ArticleIf you’re going to use some new method to teach, you should want some evidence that this method works. But what makes evidence? Even harder, what makes good evidence?
Read ArticleSomething I’m enjoying! Oddly Influenced, a podcast about how people have applied ideas from outside of software to software.
Read ArticleMuch writing about learning and teaching focuses on teaching skills to novices. I’m thinking a lot about teaching experts. Who is writing and talking about that?
Read ArticlePreviously, there were quite a few limitations on the expressions that could be used to initialise an attribute in an object. None of these limitations were mentioned in the overview...
Read ArticleIndu uses an English-like syntax with very little use of symbols, unlike many other programming languages. This is intentional, but also quite controversial amongst professional programmers. I believe that using...
Read ArticleProgramming languages, like real languages, are big, sprawling things. You can’t expect to design a big, sprawling thing right. Instead, a language will adapt as it’s used; new features will...
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