There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza.| ntietz.com
Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem.| ntietz.com
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.| ntietz.com
One of the first types we learn about is the boolean.| ntietz.com
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
A few months ago, I was talking with a friend about my ergonomic setup and they asked if being vertical helps it with cooling.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language."| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
Code ownership is a popular concept, but it emphasizes the wrong thing.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
Last week, I finally got verified on LinkedIn.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference!| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
There's this thing in Python that always trips me up.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
If you manage a team, who are your teammates?| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
Code ownership is a popular concept, but it emphasizes the wrong thing.| ntietz.com
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer.| ntietz.com
Working on my cursed MIDI project, I needed a way to store the most recent messages without risking an unbounded amount of memory usage.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
It's kind of dark times right now.| ntietz.com blog - technically a blog
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI.| ntietz.com
Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind.| ntietz.com
I saw a claim recently that in functional programming using "map/filter iterates over the list twice, while the foreach loop iterates only once."| ntietz.com
When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability.| ntietz.com
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together.| ntietz.com
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.| ntietz.com
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code.| ntietz.com
I'm the kind of nerd that has a favorite software license.| ntietz.com
In software engineering, there are two principles that often come into conflict.| ntietz.com
The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week!| ntietz.com
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning.| ntietz.com
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time. Facebook, Google, and Snapchat are all incentivized to get us to look at our phones many times a day.| ntietz.com
A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services.| ntietz.com