Archive

• Practical guide to solving hard problems
• Where did 80 characters in terminal come from
• The cost of a byte
• What's in a good error message?
• There’s no such thing as clean code
• GPS
• Programming in 1987 versus today
• Finding your home in game graphics programming
• Databases in 2021: A year in review
• The evolution of how we host our applications
• I blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a paper website business
• Common infrastructure errors I've made
• Computer networking basics every developer should know
• Time management for makers
• Avoiding premature software abstractions
• The invisible JavaScript backdoor
• 42 things I learned from building a production database
• Habits for fast and efficient programming
• What to learn
• Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet