“they fail often”
¶ by !undefinedNotes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods:
Required reading. Short version: It will fail. It will be slow. You won’t know why. Plan for that.
Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods:
Required reading. Short version: It will fail. It will be slow. You won’t know why. Plan for that.
Solving the OPTIONS Performance Issue With Single Page Apps: A worthwhile read, this talks a bit about the history of XHR, the origin of the X-Requested-With header, and how/why you should prefer an Accept header for content negotiation. In particular,…
My eleventh homebrew is a slight variation on my ninth. In that vein Honestatis (Mk. II) is the first recipe I liked enough to make a second time:
I got a little braggy about this on Twitter earlier this year…1 Our little solar project is doing pretty well. 4376.89 kW/h total yield. Thank you, @suncommon pic.twitter.com/ewezOB8LDj — Rob Friesel (@founddrama) June 6, 2015 It’s probably worth pointing out that, in this image, I had miscalculated the kWh values. A quirk of R appears […]
“I’m writing this piece because building software is half strategy and half improvisation, and I really do think there are ways to train in both.”
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Sara Simon, Learning Fluency
Given that my own background has a lot of overlap with her story, this struck a chord with me. The diverse interests, the broad learning, the liberal arts background. You can focus on computer science (or software engineering, or really anything) early and go as deep as possible, as fast as possible. But you’ll miss things.
But something else struck me here in Sara’s essay – something that should have been obvious to me because I have small children: that our important learning comes not in these big flashes (at least not most of the time), but in the repetition of small things. My kids do this. A tiny thing gets repeated over and over again until its mastered, and then it’s just… there. (And again: this should have been obvious to me from my recent study of Scrum and Agile, and its alignment to shu-ha-ri.)
Java app drama can’t find spec variable parse output chutzpah “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are […]
“Is the web platform too big? For one person, yes. Is it a problem? No. No one can be an expert in the whole web. Surgeons aren’t experts in all types of surgery, scientists aren’t experts in all of science, web developers aren’t experts in all of web development.”
– Jake Archibald, If we stand still, we go backwards