Communicating With Code

I've said this before: elegant code is pedagogical . That is, elegant code is designed to teach its readers about the concepts and relat...

In my career, I've focused a lot on making my code bug-resistant, and I've spent a lot of time trying to learn or invent techniques ...

There are two stories I particularly like about the problem of bootstrapping self-referential tools. This one : Another way ...

Taking a cue from Julia Evans , linking this here to remind myself to re-read it occasionally: John Allspaw's notes On Being a Senior E...

There are, I think, two big dangers in designing software (which probably apply to other types of creative activity, as well): No u...

I recently encountered an argument ( Why Most Unit Testing is Waste ) from Jim Coplien arguing forcefully against unit testing a...

Recalling my preferred definition of solution elegance : TotalComplexity = EssentialComplexity + AccidentalComplexity Elegance = E...