My introduction to Haskell has shown me the promise of types, enabling type-driven development. The type system self-documents better than any docstring or variable name ever did. It even guides your thinking and program architecture.
To those overwhelmed by all the programming languages and tools you can learn, changing daily, I’d like to offer some peace of mind. In my previous article, I questioned the rampant, disconnected proliferation of code. I don’t know why it is stuck the way…
I want to discuss why programming and coding are not the same, and why I can no longer support the Learn to Code movement. I can no longer tell my friends to learn coding. Although I’m passionate about it, it’s too arcane and insular for mainstream…
Here’s a collection of the high-level concepts I’ve adopted over the years. I think they add human value—to customers & teammates alike—and GTD value. All while keeping me happy with my career in the otherwise often bitter IT ecosystem. Engineering
“Firs…
This is an adaptation of an internal blog post I made for Gravity engineers. To preface, Gravity likes to use 2 very predictable patterns throughout its Scala codebase, which is very important for a TIMTOWTDI language like Scala. The for-comprehension: it…
Here are pages rife with debate on using git pull vs. git pull --rebase. I’ve decided for myself there are times for both, that is, there are times for merge commits and not.