Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “programming”

Math Symbols Explained with Python

amitness.com/2019/08/math-for-programmers/

The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile | Mindlessness

blog.mindlessness.life/makefile/2019/11/17/the-language-agnostic-all-purpose-incredible-makefile.html

I like to use Makefiles. I like to use Makefiles in Java. I like to use Makefiles in Erlang. I like to use Makefiles in Elixir. And most recently, I like to use Makefiles in Ruby. I think you, too, would like to use Makefiles in your environment, and the engineering community would benefit if more of us used Makefiles, in general.

Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore... — programming is terrible

programmingisterrible.com/post/188942142748/scaling-in-the-presence-of-errorsdont-ignore

Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore them Building a reliable, robust service often means building something that can keep working when some parts fail. A website where not every feature is...

Using Gooey as a Universal frontend for any Language or CLI Application - Blogomatano

chriskiehl.com/article/gooey-as-a-universal-frontend

What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type? | Objective Funk

nsaphra.github.io/post/hands/

In August of 2015, my hands stopped working. I could still control them, but every movement accumulated more pain, so every motion came with a cost: getting dressed in the morning, sending a text, lifting a glass. I was interning at Google that summer about to begin a PhD in Scotland, but coding all day would have left me in agony. In relating this story, I often mention that for months before I learned to work without my hands, I had nothing to do but go to a bar and order a shot of...

3 tribes of programming

josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer | Neil Kakkar

neilkakkar.com/things-I-learnt-from-a-senior-dev.html

The Real Dark Web

sonniesedge.net/posts/real-dark-web/

The 35 Words You Need to Python | yawpitchroll

yawpitchroll.com/posts/the-35-words-you-need-to-python/

Great developers are raised, not hired

sizovs.net/2019/04/10/the-best-developers-are-raised-not-hired/

Chasing 10X: Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering

senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memory-in-software-engineering

When I was burned out and my software engineering career was collapsing, I found that using spaced repetition was the one thing that enabled me to improve faster than I had imagined.

A first-person engine in 265 lines

playfuljs.com/a-first-person-engine-in-265-lines/

SCRIPT-8

script-8.github.io/

The Elements of UI Engineering - Overreacted

overreacted.io/the-elements-of-ui-engineering/

What makes UI engineering difficult?

A bit of font generation

pomax.github.io/CFF-glyphlet-fonts/

Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me

tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Natural Language Processing is Fun! – Adam Geitgey – Medium

medium.com/@ageitgey/natural-language-processing-is-fun-9a0bff37854e

Computers are great at working with structured data like spreadsheets and database tables. But us humans usually communicate in words, not in tables. That’s unfortunate for computers. A lot of…