Javascript: const cards = () = ['♥','♠','♣','♦'] .map((suite) = (['2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','10','J','Q','K','A'].map((card) = suite + card))) Clojure: (defn new-deck [] (for [r [\♥ \♠ \♣ \♦] s [:2 :3 :4 :5 :6 :7 :8 :9 :10 :J :Q :K :A]] [r s])) 💻
Why do I have such a big attraction to teen fictions (like _Never Have I Ever_)? For a while I've been thinking it was the force of a stream, a soak, a wash of saudade made lighter by revisiting that time from a better place; a chance to relive with empathy for myself, to reclaim that time from the …
Not a day goes by when I don’t witness the over signifying of “meeting”. “Meeting” invokes a collective sigh for laborers since a better way seems a fairy tale. As a consequence, possibilities for elevated communication are damaged. But a meeting is so much more: …
Like many commercial software developers, math plays a more sporadic role in my day-to-day work. That said, I certainly wouldn’t blithely demote knowing math below other techs like programming languages, web frameworks, and principles of software design/architecture; which already sets up a …
Femi Ogunbanjo & Hanne Klintoe, 1999, The Loss of Sexual Innocence Back in February, my entire notion of expertise and how experts make decisions became cracked after listening to episode 169 of the Greater than Code podcast. While the podcast is rolling I’m discovering my socialized …
Halfway through _Companions in Conversation_ and I'm having this memory of being in college -- clacking away code points on the cheap silicons of a Micron computer -- practicing new knowledges in my class essays just like Haraway admits while writing the _Cyborg Manifesto_: "trying out some of the …
Making code do something requires exactness but that doesn’t necessarily mean programmers will express grammars with any particular concision or ease. Code is an outcome of social construction, background, perhaps aesthetic desire. Toy code problems reveal the apparatus, for sure. If you ask …
…bugs are interesting and important in themselves: they define the boundary between what is understood and what is not. Hence, they show us where our weaknees are, and provide opportunities for us to learn and grow. Software Development and Reality Construction Ch 5.1: The Denial of Error, …
Hannah Höch, Für ein Fest gemacht (Made for a Party), 1936 Collage When paired with component-based framework tools and HTML’s unordered lists. Since the rendering is done by the framework, we simply need to progressively stack render calls as we traverse the data. Such brutalist Dada. …
Every time I use a recursive function for something practical in commercial software my notional machine of it’s behavior is refined. This amounts to a small list of heuristics amassing in my mental pocket: “It’s a function that calls itself.” “You make your list of …
When I’m drifting between jobs – say, during a global pandemic and massive civil rights upheaval – I tease away some time from protest and anti-racist organizing to study programming basics and plunge below the membranes of web frameworks. Of course, the first thing you realize …
Lydia Hallie’s list of JS interview questions are extensive and probably one of the most comprehensive resources out there. The laundry list of questions runs the gamut from basic to esoteric language features, each of which progress you though various themes in what seem like meaningful …
In which Frederica Frabetti locates the “points of opacity” – malfunction – in/of software through study of the Garmisch (Germany) report – a foundational text of software from the first Conference on Software Engineering in 1968 organized by the NATO Science Committee. …
Check out the second – and I believe last – in this short series: https://dev.to/internetross/let-s-talk-about-orchestration-vs-separation-of-concerns-react-redux-edition-part-2-imo I’m emerging from the shadows, a bit, and trying out dev.to. Check out this first in a two part …
Have you ever noticed yourself going to unnecessary lengths to avoid repetition in your code despite the fact that requirements actually represent a complicated world? I swear the longer I write code in the industry the more DRY feels like a leaky ideological imposition that drifts from …
Lately I’ve been thinking about productivity and it’s evolutionary rhythm while scaling. Like, how easy the cadence ebbs. My lived experience as a software developer often feels like anfractuous GPS reroutes. For example, we have split teams to tackle different product areas in parallel. …
About 11 years ago at Google I/O two dudes, Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman, presented The Myth of the Genius Programmer to an audience of mostly dudes. Well, we can surmise at the demographics because women were still being invented around this time. Women are a very recent invention. …
At the office I’ve sprinkled some glue labor on a piece of documentation that attempts a heuristics for avoiding code duplication across client and api layers. I kept seeing this type of repetition occur and it was creating too much maintenance risk in the code. Here’s an example. …
I want take some bits to process a recent issue of JS Weekly that reposted a new piece by Eric Elliot about optional values in JavaScript. I read it. It lit up my memory. One of the first Lambda Cast episodes I listened to was #6: Null and Friends. At this point in time I’m near the start of …
Migrating my content from Medium was due, but this past week became a particularly opportune time to repost some old content on the subject of naming. Because I’m in one of those feels again, y’ll. And it’s about one of the two hard things enshrined by Phil Karlton. Really we just …
However you mental wrap the process of realizing virtual things (writing, accretion, rose gardening), there’s no question literary-ness does imprint at some point on IDE surfaces. In my experience working in the higher stories of the tower (cloudgineering, we so high): up there with web pages, …
Ok, gonna brain dump a little because I got excited about some synergy! Maybe I’m just really starting to find some peeps in the trillicon valley zeitgeist. Gee Paw Hill published a blog a few days ago that retrospects on geek culture gatekeeping (I think we can basically proxy software …
Dispatch from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Arrived way too early because of traffic fantasies. While leafing through my daily software briefs I came across an article with that dissapointing refrain in our industry: this should be easy to do. There’s probably no better way to put a …
The other day I got into a small argument with coworkers during the Sailboat exercise about the meaning of “technical debt.” We were hunched over stickies and milling about thoughtfully. Suddenly I leaped from my chair and smacked a note on the whiteboard: application too big. The rent …
I still have lingering rage from two years ago when an interviewer said to me: “I could probably implement this in about 20 minutes.” Seriously crushing words to utter offhand during a facetime code screen for someone who has been programming and building web apps professionally for 3+ …