The mental meanderings of a wannabe Renaissance Man
For those who are new here, I’m Jake – an ordinary web developer by day and a rising fitness enthusiast by night. Just like many of you out there, I spent countless hours seated in front of a computer screen, buried under piles of code and
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A poem in free verse. JavaScript is a very flawed programming language that we discuss in this blog post. So are the overwhelming majority of other programming languages. A large portion of JavaScript developers don’t understand or care what makes a language suck or not, nor
Another in a long line of posts eschewing JavaScript frameworks has hit the web and the community response has been predictably dichotomous. Being a programmer, I of course have an opinion on this. But I try to retain a bit of nuance when looking at questions like this. I
Bad tests are worse than no tests. But never trying to test is far, far worse than writing bad tests. Bad tests will exert a friction on your development efforts. They cost time to write, they cost time to maintain, they don’t provide clear benefit, and
I’m starting a new job on March 7. As I wrapped up my time with the company where I’ve spent the past 3 years, I spent some time thinking about the decisions and responsibilities that I was given, and that I took on, while there. One
A while back, the seeds of a post started rolling around in my head, inspired by my lack of satisfaction with the preparation my education provided me for a programming career. But I didn’t quite know what I thought. Then not long ago, Joel Spolsky presented
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There’s been a lot of noise recently about the future of programming, as a profession. Okay, let’s be honest, people have been talking about the imminent programming crash for a long time. But they didn’t know what they were talking about. When I graduated college a