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Embedded Developers Aren’t Special

We can make embedded software better if we take testing more seriously, avoid optimization until it's necessary, write more abstract code, and stop believing we're special.

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Problem-Solving Like a Generalist

Want to become a creative problem solver? Trying stepping outside your field. You’ll be surprised by all the ways your new knowledge will come in handy.

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The Perspective of Great Developers

The perspective of a great developer helps them provide more value than average developers when things go wrong with third-party code.

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Acceptance Tests, My Hero!

Acceptance tests are crucial even for small hobby projects.

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Bias in Computer Systems, and Beyond

Software can be biased in many ways. Friedman and Nissenbaum do an excellent job of describing a framework for classifying unfair bias.

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Some Tweaks for C Development to Help with TDD

Advice to help developers use test driven development more effectively in the language C.

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State in Web Applications

The problem with the CGI way is that the state of your application is bifurcated between client and server and exists in different places at different times

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Balancing Safety and Convenience

Most languages will throw an exception if you do this, but not all. Not throwing an exception can let you write simpler code.

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Designers Are More Valuable than Programmers

Insights as to how developers practice design and an assertion of the diminishing value of the "coder" mindset.

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How Do You Roll Your Dough?

A common activity during software development is deciding when and how to functionally decompose your code. This post covers when and how we break down or refactor larger functions

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You’re Ready to Deploy – You Must Be Done, Right?

Your app might do everything your customers asked, but does it do everything you need? Here're tools for monitoring and diagnosing issues after it ships.

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From Pigment to Pixels: What Art History Can Teach Us about Software Design

This post compares and contrasts software design for hire with art done for patrons.

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