Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. I took a bit of a hiatus for the holidays, but I’m back. What is an IDE? I can remember when Turbo Pascal…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Stack Overflow Destroys Software Developers I’ve long had a love/hate relationship with Stack Overflow. I love it for the great answers I find there…

We all know that passwords leave a lot to be desired. They are a hassle for everyone. Fortunately, passwordless authentication is coming. Removing passwords from the authentication equation will be a welcome sight for users and software developers. You may have heard about passkeys, a standards-based solution that leverages biometrics…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. 7 Unnecessary VSCode Extensions You Should Uninstall Now If you are like me, you have installed VS Code extensions like a drunken sailor. VS Code keeps improving…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction I tried Tailwind, and I was not too fond of it. I didn’t bother to figure out exactly why…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Engineering Productivity: What Not to Do I talk a lot about metrics (and wrote recently about it here), and this is a good list of…

(I missed last week. My apologies) Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. Are Coding Bootcamps Worth It? How to Start a Career in Code Granted, this article is on a website trying to sell boot camp enrollments…

Rightfully Resistant to Change Password management is a thing that many people feel very strongly about. Many folks don’t like passwords and hope for a better way. But other folks have a solid system built around their password security and are rightfully very skeptical of systems that claim to improve on what they have…

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention. Subscribe via email and get this in your inbox every Monday. The Perfect Commit Boy, have things changed over the years. I remember when the notion of a code commit being delivered in…