Your code is just your code.
It is not your life.It is not who you are.It is your code.
Some of your code is concise and clear.Some of your code is muddy.
I’ve always thought that if you were practicing martial arts, getting a black belt was the pinnacle of your career. As it turned out, I was wrong. And while I was reading about different ranking systems I realized how much we, computer programmers, could learn from traditional…
I was looking for an old story of mine on our internal Medium and stumbled upon another story, an experiment I tried a few months ago. Realizing that the experiment ended up being a success, I decided to re-package it for the big Medium.
I was working on making Charted embeddable today (coming soon!) which meant I had to brush up on my iframe skills. It’s been three years since we published Third-party JavaScript and Ben gave his talk on seamless iframes, and yet seamless iframes are nowhere to be seen. What happened there?
Suzuki told an old Chinese folk tale about the difference between heaven and hell. In hell everyone has very short arms. They sit around tables full of sumptuous food, trying to eat with very long chopsticks, but they can’t get the food in their mouths because chopsticks are too long and their arms…
People hate debugging. Debugging can be painful, frustrating, and often unrewarding. And yet, I love it. I wanted to write about it for a long time but I could never find the right words. I finally found them. In a TV show, out of places.
Debugging is about finding the bug…
it’s early evening
i’m sitting at my desk
spending hours i will never get back
staring at the screen
trying