Everything Everywhere All At Once

Programming paradigms are like salt and sugar... and other seasonings and condiments. There's a time for one, and then there are times for others. You don't choose one and use it in large doses without question. That's not engineering, that's an assembly line. With that said, declarative programming kickstarted the…

Whenever I write about a trending (and often hotly debated topic), I append the following disclaimer: If you’re not in it for a genuine, substantive two- or multi-way dialog, don’t read this piece, because it’s not for you. I’m not here to listen to opinionated people calling others stupid, ain’t…

Honestly this piece confused me - I'm not sure if I truly see your point, and would really love for your to elaborate on a few things. Otherwise I tend to agree with some of the existing comments. First of all, the bulk of the argument seems to be based…

It’s a trick question, actually. It’s like asking someone if Porsche 911 is a good car. The most decent answer should always be: It depends. On what? It depends on what you want to use the car for. Porsche 911 is a pretty sweet sports car, it does what sports…

Pretty decent piece! I think one point worthy of highlighting is that a major cause of the trend of slowing full-time engineering jobs growth is because of automation. Like non-technical jobs, coding and engineering are increasingly reliant on automation. By this I am talking the growing arsenal of libraries, frameworks…

As the CTO, you need to consider a lot more than just functionality. Within an engineering team, questions of the following sorts are a recurring theme: Should my team use Kubernetes instead? Should my team port my JavaScript codebase over to something based on Web Assembly? Should our infrastructure go…

It actually made me want to use technology a lot less. It was the late 90s and early 2000s, and I was one of those kids who didn’t much care for direct instruction in class. Not because I hated schooling, it was just that everything I was learning in school…

(Original Post on May 5, 2016) It has been a while since I last blogged, now perhaps it is fitting to go back to talking about education. Let’s home in on an important issue in education: creativity. Or to be more exact, how ought we reform education to make it…

Great piece on the matter! Just wanted to quickly add that there are unfortunate historical reasons for why Chinese is so difficult to learn - because it was never a single identifiable language, but it was retrofitted to look like one (for political reasons, after the fall of the Manchurian…