We can talk about good code and bad code all day, but it’s important to recognize the other traits of code — other axes on which code can be evaluated.
One of the common ones is the term hacky. What is that?
In some cases, hacky code is meant to run only as a demo, just something ‘hacked together’, like a poet scribbling on the nearest piece of paper she can find. In the programming realm, this proof-of-concept, some early version of an algorithm, often gets picked up as a golden egg and shoved into production. …
It’s likely that you have seen this commercial from Apple — if you haven’t, you can check it out on 📹 YouTube 📹. Something bothered me about this commercial every time I’ve seen it...
Neighbor: “What are you doing on your computer?”
Scout: “What’s a Computer?”
Apple creates an artificial language gap between Scout and her neighbor. A real kid wouldn’t answer that way. Kids aren’t dumb, they know tablets are a type of computer. But that’s not what bothers me about Scout’s answer — what bothers me is the implicit assertion that the Post-PC era is here.
Apple uses…
I think it’s time more frontend and full-stack developers started using tmux, which stands for “terminal multiplexer”. But before we get into whatever “multiplexer” means, let’s consider Vim. Vim is the default text editor when writing a git commit message. A wonky terminal program that somehow makes writing 50 characters more challenging than typing them outright. You end up alt-tabbing to search how to quit this thing, because your emergency key combo Ctrl-C to close out programs… does nothing! Vim is a tough, unforgiving piece of software from a bygone era, like a treacherous ring full of magical power.
Truthfully…
As a frontend developer, designer, and mentor at Thinkful, I talk with junior web developers on a daily basis. I see their struggles, inspect their portfolio sites, and am always on the lookout of how to improve their understanding of CSS.
In this post, I want to outline the most common issues junior frontend devs run into when building a responsive site on their own. The two major lessons that I’m skipping in this article are various CSS resets like normalize.css and the box-sizing border-box * { box-sizing: border-box; }. …
This is a question with several correct answers, depending on what you want to do with your code and what kinds of programs you want to build.
There’s software everywhere: Software is running your thermostat, your car or the train that you take to work every morning, and of course the browser or app that you’re using to read this. In this article we’re going to cover just a few areas of development that you might want to get into. …
Should you learn programming?
This is a love story like any other. It hurts, but it’s worth it.
Every day we encounter products of civilized society, old breakthroughs and progressive improvement. Individuals are themselves echoes of interactions of past species. Other species inherit culture and teach their young ones from one generation to the next. We, on the other hand, record our ideas in writing and other media, preserving knowledge from many generations and giving us refined understanding of history. In just the last thirty years, personal computers have emerged as both a communications platform, and the best way to make new media. …
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Code — Music — Climate
