“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…
Happy Canada Day to all my readers. I’m going to watch the fireworks.
The last few months I’ve started running again after stopping last fall. First I ran a route and walked part way alternatively. Early May I…
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…
I noticed when trying to create a pipeline-style 2d programming environment you have to model IO. Functional programmers do it. If you model it, you…
I mentioned this project I’ve been working on for 20+ years a few weeks ago. I remember my first pocket computer. It was a Palm Pilot.…