How You Detach Sticky Notes Affects How Well They Stay Attached
How simple geometry and physics might be undermining the effectiveness of your sticky notes
Selected Writings of Danver Braganza
Mostly articles about programming in Python and Go, with occasional detours into the whimsical.
Latest posts
Christmas Songs that Do Too Much
Twelve Christmas songs that always steal the limelight
Zawinski's Law was Never About Email
Social connection is one of the main drivers of software feature expansion
My most frequently used Jujutsu VCS commands
A cheat-sheet of jj commands you're most likely to need day-to-day using jj as a git replacement.
How I Made My Credit Cardholder Discounts Searchable
How I gather my credit card offers in one place so I don't miss out
Building a Python Application that depends on PySide6 QtWebEngineWidgets with Briefcase
If you've run into this error, this is how you can fix it
Roll-Invert-Unroll: An Easier Way to Replace a Duvet Cover
This way of putting a cover onto a duvet might save you effort and time!
My Theme Song (8 bit version)
I composed an 8-bit version of my own theme song and put it on the Internet
Improving My Toothbrush, an Alexa Skill, with Go and the help of AI tools
How I leveraged Go, GPT-4 and DALL-E to improve a simple toothbrush timer Alexa Skill
Death is Truth: Why Post-Mortems Work
How to successfully perform the Rite of AshkEnte
3D Printing a custom case for my Flipper Zero's Wifi Devboard
Step-by-step instructions I used to build and assemble a case for my Flipper accessory
De Morgan's Flaw: Perform This Refactor Carefully
A pattern that I've noticed often causes bugs
Estimates, Design and the Payoff Line
How inaccuracies in estimation lead to a systematic undervaluing of the importance of Design
Names to avoid in Software Engineering
An incomplete list of poor names for libraries, modules, projects and teams
Distributed Circuit Breakers at Hipmunk
How we implemented Circuit Breakers at Hipmunk to automatically deal with third party outages.
Misapplying LazyRecursiveDefaultDict
A cautionary tale of how I misapplied the wrong software tool to a problem, and what I've learned from it.
The Sorting Hat and Hash Functions
Why Harry Potter's Sorting Hat would make a poor choice for a hash function
Book Summary: The Phoenix Project
A summary and a review of the Phoenix Project
From Maybe to Ensure
A digression on naming functions, and ensuring they only do one thing
Highlight selected words in terminal output with grep
A one-line shell function to visually emphasize search terms in the terminal output of a program
Zero-based ordinals
This is the televenth post of my blog.
Always spell your range checks like this
By always spelling your range conditionals start <= index < capacity, you make your code more easily grokkable and reduce the chance of errors.
The Empty Case is not Special
Instead of explicitly handling the empty case in functions, try this instead.
Book Summary: Left of Bang
A review of the book Left of Bang
Connect Four implemented in 3 lines of Python
A tiny implementation of Connect 4 on the terminal, with explanation.
Why interfaces in Go are so strict
A closer look at some surprising interface mechanics in Go
Hangman implemented in 3 lines of Python (2)
Just because you can, doesn't mean you shrdlu.
How to remember the order of arguments to super() in Python2
A handy mnemonic that eliminates the guesswork from picking the order of arguments for super()
Knowing when to finish and knowing where to start
Announcing the completion of varcaser, and discussing prioritization.
Keysort: The Schwartzian Transform in Go
This article talks about a problem I encountered while sorting complex types in Go, and the solution I came up with, keysort.
Inaugural post
This is the first ever post to this blog.
Ratchets Run Faster with Resharp
Switching from the regex crate in Rust to Resharp makes Ratchets run 15% faster on the Sculptor codebase
Quiet in the Zoo
A reminder (to myself, mostly) on the importance of stepping away from the agents to make time for reflection