I move between Go and C#, and one idiom I like in Go is tests living alongside the things they are testing, right in the same project. In addition to style preference, it (IMHO) more easily allows testing internal functions. In the .Net world, having a separate test project is traditional. ..
It’s expected that Apple will be improving Siri in the upcoming iOS 18, exploiting the progress that Large Language Models (LLMs) have made over the past year or so. How might they do it? ..
In the spirit of Go’s ‘good enough’ type system, here’s a thought experiment for ‘good enough’ generics…
I think the replication & open science movement is great. I come from an epistemological, first-principles sort of mindset, and so I find this very encouraging: ..
Stack Overflow Talent aims to connect the right company with the right developer. We call this a two-sided market – developers on one side and recruiters on the other. ..
I have a theory that the use of TypeScript de facto makes for more performant JavaScript, by making the runtime’s “type prediction” more accurate. ..
One characteristic I see in accountable managers is having the courtesy to be wrong. ..
This is a follow-on to my introductory post on championship, please give that a read for background. ..
Engineering and product managers often talk about “ownership” of features, when what we want is championship. When we orient ourselves around assignment of tasks, we ship a worse product. ..
On the occasion of reading Nassim Taleb’s latest book, an anecdote about how he influenced a career decision of mine. ..