I'm inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be "I disagree with some aspects of what ...

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I just deleted a thousand lines of code, and in this snippet, I'll explain why that is a good thing! In other words, some musings on code quality, lines of c...

Rich has become a popular (20K stars on GH) way of beautifying CLIs, and I'm pleased to see a number of projects using it. Since Rich is mature and battle-tested now, I had considered winding-down development. Until, I saw this tweet: The Tweet Do you want…

You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and …

Near the end of January I was pointed to a twitter thread where a Windows user with a powerful machine was hitting random hangs in explorer. Lots of unscientific theories were being proposed. I don…

Once I came across a description of an Android application that measured the heart rate remotely by using the smartphone’s camera. The…

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Go 1.16 adds embedded files, Apple Silicon support, and more.

.NET 6 Preview 1 is now available and is the start of the next major .NET release, focused on .NET unification and supporting new platforms.

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An important message from open source chess organizations.

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The Perseverance rover's Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity) will take off, navigate, and land on Mars without human intervention