If this is the new CSS, count me in.

I’ve always had a love / hate relationship with CSS. Love that it’s powerful, simply syntax, and generally human comprehensible (minus not having a ‘center…

Timezones and why to avoid them when programming.

During a Laravel meetup last night the issue of timezones came up; I had seen this video before but it’s still entertaining and very poignant.…

Finding the motivation to complete.

It happens to all of us. We get a awesome idea, a world changer, an industry changer even. We plan it out, using some fancy…

12 Reasons To Avoid Individual Code Ownership by Lorenzo Pasqualis

A follow up to the 9 points posted yesterday, Lorenzo Pasqualis  is an author I’ll be following going forward. 12 Reasons To Avoid Individual Code Ownership

Yet another great article

You know, I might as well just add dev.to into my RSS feed. Really really great articles over there these last few weeks. 9 Software…

Any interesting piece on the state of the the software industery.

Blaine Osepchuk over on dev.to has an interesting counterpoint to Uncle Bob’s rip on the Atlantic’s article concerning software in safety critical usages. It is…

Double down Friday! Another good article about learning Vim in 4 weeks…not saying I -will-, just saying you -can-.

If you are so inclined to be a vim uber like James LaChance ;). https://medium.com/@peterxjang/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-plan-cd8b376a9b85

When you think you have it rough…this person learned programming, solo, in rural Uruguay.

Sometime we take the most basic of things for granted. Stable dependable internet, phone system, traffic control, having more than 50cents a day for food.…

Package release announcement. Auto-Gourcer (Repository visualizer)

I’ve always had a soft spot for visualizations. Info-graphics, animations, the the like. One specific tool I came across years back is Gource. Finally got…

Input, mutate, output…pretty much explains everything.

As a person with many hobbies I often find myself trying to take a situation I am not familiar with and compare it to something…