Is programming more like natural language or mathematics? A recent article from Ars Technica throws some water on both camps. In How does the brain interpret computer languages?, Ars looks at some science: the story so far is that it’s some of both but also its own thing entirely. Did python skew the result? I … Continue reading This is your brain on … python?| the tmp files
Want to create a blank markdown file in an open File Explorer window with just two clicks? OF COURSE YOU DO! One thing I like about Windows (yes, there is more than one) is easy access to creating new folders and blank text documents. Apple’s Services menu made me break out Automator to get something … Continue reading Add Markdown to your Windows Context Menu| the tmp files
One of my favorite pandemic activities is answering questions on OK Cupid to feed the algorithm. So today it asked me what I love about my job. Here’s what I said to the algo and to my potential future husbands: Sometimes it’s the process of software development, working together to build systems none of us … Continue reading What I love about my job…| the tmp files
I’m grateful to live in a time when online grocery shopping is a mature technology, but there are three things that irk me so much about Amazon Whole Foods that I’m compelled to rage blog about it while waiting for my latest order to arrive. A quick disclaimer: I am not a UX developer, nor … Continue reading My Top Three UX Gripes with Amazon Whole Foods| the tmp files
I’ve struggled with the shades of grey in Democratic candidates’ polices like on healthcare: Medicare for all? For all who want it? For all over 50? It’s…complicated. Thankfully Mike Bloomberg said something at the end of 2019 that made not voting for him a pretty easy decision: He wants to turn the White House into … Continue reading How Bloomberg just lost the IT vote| the tmp files
Top among my pet peeves as both programmer and general human is date formatting. Having lived through the nonpocalypse of Y2K (because we fixed lots of crap before it broke), ambiguous dates are anathema to me. I’ve never written a two-digit year since then except when an electronic form gives me no choice. I hope … Continue reading One More New Year’s Resolution For You: Use ISO-8601.| the tmp files
After two years of working from home full time, I was eager to get back into the office. According to Bloomberg, early corporate adopters of telecommuting are changing their minds about the practice too and perhaps going too far: Bad News, Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office One point BBG raises is that … Continue reading There’s no place like home. Some of the time.| the tmp files
This. Me. Ask anybody I’ve worked with. Ask everybody I’m working with now. Actually, either side of the conversation works for me. Source: xkcd: Supervillain Plan Looking for a great Java library to help with time zones? Joda Time, you seek Joda Time! Help you, it can! And, there is another: Java 8’s new Time classes are excellent.| the tmp files
This short video interview (link below) with Susan Fowler, a Site Reliability Engineer at Uber, is worth watching for a few reasons: Standardization in microservices is a frontier needing so…| the tmp files
New python programmers discover something strange the first time they use the built-in round function: $ python -c ‘print(round(0.5), round(1.5), round(2.5))’0 2 2 Did you expect to see…| the tmp files
