Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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What Are We Doing Here?
[T]hough it is worthwhile to attain the end merely for one man, it is fine...
Using Windows 10 and the Surface Book 2 for Web Development
I’ve been a web developer who uses a Mac for almost ten years, but lately I’m...
Demonstrating Timeouts, Retries, and Circuit Breakers with an Outage Simulator
I’ve seen quite a few outages and outage-like scenarios caused by improper ha...
Can you Write Code on a Chromebook?
This is an update to Can you Write Code on an iPad?, in which I tried writing...
Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared
The venerable “mixin” is a technique I learned as a Python developer. Now, af...
Ten Years of Learning Investments
I’m coming up on ten years as a professional software developer. On...
The Rule of Three
Many programmers feel a desire to create reusable components early in the dev...
Dear Alma: Do You Have to Achieve an Act of Greatness for Your Life to Matter?
After the movie The Social Network came out, I saw a post on the internet wri...