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Accept It: Software is Wabi-sabi

Accepting that software products are never perfect, permanent, or finished gives me a sense of peace and helps me focus on how to make the situation better.

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Four Tips for Documenting a Legacy Codebase

I’ve developed a good strategy for documenting the business logic and data flows in a legacy code base. Here are a few tips that I found helpful.

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The Security Spectrum of curl | sh

curl | sh, though somewhat risky, isn't intrinsically insecure as a pattern. If you know what can go wrong, you'll be better-equipped to wisely use it.

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Five Crucial Steps For Writing a Mobile App For a Bluetooth Device

Writing an app that communicates with a Bluetooth device can be very challenging. I've picked up a few best practices that ease this process.

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Escaping the South Indian Monkey Trap

In The Passionate Programmer, Chad Fowler got me thinking about "value rigidity" in software dev through his exploration of the South Indian Monkey Trap.

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Type Systems Aren’t Magic

I’ve been learning Haskell to see what it’s like to have a good type system, and what I’ve seen so far is that types aren’t magic or a panacea.

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Don’t Replace Your Switch Statements with Object Literals

The moral of the story: when programming a web app, use a functional style, and a lot of your problems won't be problems anymore.

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Three Tips for Building a Long-Term, Sustainable Project

Help your future self and others by ensuring your project is sustainable over the long term by using these three simple tips.

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Designing a Scalable Deployment Pipeline

Designing an effective and scalable deployment pipeline is the top priority of a product engineering team—even over choosing a language or tech stack.

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Open Source Basics: NPM Edition

Tips for making changes to third-party dependencies and contributing them upstream, using npm and git—though you can use other languages' packaging systems.

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Tech Debt Isn’t What You Think It Is

We need to stop taking a sprint to "deal with tech debt," and start taking time to "implement the lessons we've learned over the past X sprints."

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Help Your Fellow Developers with Well-Worded Error Messages

Write error messages that won't make readers think. A good error message should both point out a problem in your code and indicate a solution.

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