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Andre Masella

Andre Masella

Myst and D’ni: an Intersectional Analysis

Myst and its sequels have always been my favourite video games. I’m not much of a gamer and Myst is a unique game and even now, at the…

Mar 10, 2019

Mar 10, 2019

Andre Masella

Checked versus Unchecked Exceptions: Missing the Point Entirely

A friend recently brought a rant about checked exceptions in Java to my attention. He vehemently disagreed with the author: he thought…

Mar 22, 2018

Mar 22, 2018

Andre Masella

Belonging to a Community

What does it take to be a member of a community? I use OSS; I evangelise OSS; I’ve contributed patches to OSS; and I’ve released OSS. By…

Aug 22, 2017

Aug 22, 2017

Andre Masella

Motorcycles, Gumption, and Beautiful Code

I love reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and I have to say it is one of the best books I have ever read as it has allowed…

Aug 15, 2017

Aug 15, 2017

Andre Masella

What Programming Language Should I Learn?

A friend, who is a TA, messaged me asking about whether it was okay that one of her students was considering a JavaScript course on…

Aug 1, 2017

Aug 1, 2017

Andre Masella

Pathologies of Computer Programmers

There was a period were I was dealing almost exclusively in bioinformatics and was not dealing with computer programmers. After switching…

Jun 18, 2017

Jun 18, 2017

Andre Masella

Idiomatic Mismatch

For a long time, I hoped there would be the One Ring of programming languages: a language that would be good at nearly everything. Ah, to…

Jun 13, 2017

Jun 13, 2017

Andre Masella

Understanding Comics…and Everything Else

I read this book called Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s actually an interesting read in it’s own right–the Ancient Egyptians…

May 28, 2017

May 28, 2017

Andre Masella

Writing Code is Not the Interesting Part of Programming

And you’re a bad programmer if you think otherwise.

May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017

Andre Masella

If you can’t make it Good, make it Blue

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the visual effects team had an adage: if you can’t make it good, make it blue. For many of the…

Apr 28, 2017

Apr 28, 2017

Andre Masella

Andre Masella

I make Flabbergast(@co_0nfig), a loom, and bread, not in that order. Views are those of my past-selves. Full of caremad.

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