First post in a while. Excuses include Buda, sickness and battling Nazis in my spare time. But anyway, here’s a batch of links to make up for it. Continue reading »
Entries tagged with "tech"
Buda Links
Written in Birmingham, published in Budapest. Enjoy three days worth of links. Continue reading »
Have Hammer, Will Use
Most devs use a text editor that’s at least a few notches above Notepad. Some even go the whole hog and use an IDE. But it’s amazing how much of our tools we just don’t use. Continue reading »
Abstractly Abstracting Abstracts
There’s a problem that all devs fall into eventually. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably done it a couple of times. Each time you promise you’ll never make the same mistake again, next time you’ll cut yourself off before you go too deep down the rabbit hole. And then you go and do it again. You try and make the perfect abstraction. Continue reading »
Sweltering Links
It hit 30C here this week, which meant we broke out the AC units at 383 Towers. Luckily next week I’m going to Budapest where it’s expected to hit 38C, but with a 100% chance of baths. Which is all a roundabout way of saying this week’s links are been written in the Sun and next week’s links are going to be sparse. Continue reading »
Old Ways
A site went down today. Nowadays that doesn’t mean much, because we have so many layers and redundancies half the time we don’t even get a notification. The advantage of treating servers like cattle. But this site was a bit older. Eight years old. Continue reading »
By Any Other Name
This isn’t going to be another one of those posts about how you should name your variables or if a class should be a verb. Instead it’s about package names. Continue reading »
Set Top
It used to be, if you wanted to do anything with a bit of hardware like a TV you needed to go deep. Maybe not assembly (but it helps), but at least some mix of C/C++ to render guides, overlays and whatnot. Continue reading »
Algo
I want to quote a phrase from the book I’m reading at the moment. The pages managed to soak up nearly a full glass of water a few nights ago, but the text still holds. The circumstances are a mathematician has broken into a safe using a crude carbon-graphite microphone and is now asked for the combination by an officer. Continue reading »
Glasto Links
Glastonbury is currently on-going in a field somewhere in England. I saw a line-up of artists last night and realised I’m so far removed from that whole area of music it wasn’t even worth Spotifying their names. Anyway, Saturday links inbound. Continue reading »
