In Joel Spolsky’s blog post “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to better Code”, he describes a test composed of twelve simple yes-no questions. For a yes you get one point. 10 points are acceptable and 12 are perfect. If you have less than 10 points, you will get in trouble with your software – sooner or later.
Source: Writing better Code, an article by Daniel Gerlach.
A review of Baumann et.als paper on limitations of the fork system call present in UNIX operating systems.
Source: Paper: A fork() in the road, an article by Daniel Näslund.
A couple of months ago, I uninstalled Homebrew and migrated my configuration to MacPorts. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the state of package management on macOS, and here’s what I’ve come up with based on my experiences using both and interacting with their development communities.
Source: Thoughts on macOS Package Managers, an article by Saagar Jha.