My main problem with Prioritizing For Productivity is my desire to avoid it. It’s too easy to disengage and lose enthusiasm. If I am interested…
Before we can say yes, and certainly long before we can say no, we need to know why. “There is an entire section in the…
I came across https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3593856.3595909 via https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gauge last month. “An order of magnitude lower than the baseline” seems like an excellent increase in performance. I seem…
Messages come in. Messages get processed. Messages get acknowledged. Last month at work, I found a case where a message came in and caused the…
“Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make…
Think of the 90s, when the web was first getting going. The joke was the WWW stood for World Wide Wait. Everything took forever to load. Pages of…
“We have to plan for the rot to overcome it.” How can we overcome rot? What plan can we have?Surprisingly, making short methods and functions…
When I started programming, my teachers insisted I comment my code. Everything to show what I was doing in the code. Partly they may have…
A year ago, I was contracted to move a website that had no business being on the open web to an internal website. They were in no rush to…
Another concept that I recognized when trying to model code in 2d was Trial Threads. These are parallel threads trying to complete the same task with…