On Being a Developer

A small rant

Sep 16

7

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August 2025

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

or "Don't Invoke a Spell You Can't Control"

Aug 12

8

An Employer's Guide To Hiring Developers

hint: programming challenges are a dumb idea

Aug 3

6

2

July 2025

Should People Learning to Code Use AI?

tldr; yes and no

Jul 17

4

2

Job Titles Are Lazy Labels

It's time to stop using simplistic labels for complex individuals

Jul 6

3

4

June 2025

Simplicity, Agility, and Agency

Development doesn't have to be this complicated

Jun 25

4

1

Error Monads The Hard Way

I can't decide how to best express the equivalent of Haskell's Error monad and DO block in Ruby...

Jun 3

11

5

May 2025

Testing

Might not mean what you think it means

May 26

13

2

Module-based Polymorphism

A quickie

May 15

6

Method Chaining vs Function Composition

Part of an occasional series on my move away from OO programming

May 14

8

2

April 2025

Design Patterns Are Not Design

Enough already with the factories and the decorators.

Apr 30

8

2

Premature Design Is Not Design

Resist the temptation to guess, and let the code tell you what it needs.

Apr 22

13

4