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software development
2019

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software development

January

08
Finding unique items - hash vs sort?
12
Goodbye, Clean Code
21
Why do we fall into the rewrite trap?
26
Beyond TDD: breaking the rules
27
The Shapes of Code
29
Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming

February

10
Tools in My Toolbox
11
The economics of clean code
14
Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?
16
Tips on reading and debugging other programmers' code
24
Reflections on software performance
27
Don’t try to sanitize input
28
Eight rituals to be a better programmer
29
Choosing a Programming Language

March

03
Know Your Database Types
04
Time Disorder: don't order events by timestamp
04
The death of Agile?
09
Dive into an unfamiliar codebase from its edges
12
Why I Don’t Use Classes
19
The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
22
Secure by Design
29
You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems
31
Falsehoods programmers believe about time

April

03
Don’t repeat my mistakes while developing a ML library
08
A humble guide to database schema design
20
Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
22
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
23
Warnings are Errors

May

11
Two Ways to Categorize Errors
12
What Writing DRY Code Really Means

June

05
Containers from first principles
14
Seven Techniques to Master Error Handling
18
Intuitive Programming - Comments
20
An Intro to Compilers
21
Views on Error Handling

July

05
Beginner’s Guide To Abstraction
06
D-Bus and Polkit, No More Mysticism and Confusion
08
GNU: A Heuristic for Bad Cryptography
08
Delta Compression
15
Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler
16
How SHA-2 Works Step-By-Step (SHA-256)
17
Assessing Abstractions
18
Sequential Consistency In Practice
22
Setting up a Linux Workstation for Software Development
28
Hexadecimal floating point
29
Random Strings and Integers That Actually Aren’t
31
The Case Against OOP is Wildly Overstated

August

04
How to read code: the next generation
15
Write your Own Virtual Machine
22
Writing better Code
22
Paper: A fork() in the road
24
Null-safety Part 1: The Fundamental Problem with Null
29
Don't trust default timeouts

September

22
The case for comments in code
27
Crafting Functions

October

14
Prefer Fakes Over Mocks
17
Coding Tip: Try to Code Without If-statements
21
Forcing Functions in Software Development

November

01
Why I prefer functional programming
10
Optimizing your code is not the same as parallelizing your code
11
Systematically removing code
11
Fixing leaky logs: how to find a bug and ensure it never returns
19
Refactoring a Loop That Was Trying Too Hard

December

02
Why should you use an ORM (Object Relational Mapper)?
06
On navigating a large codebase
17
DRY is a Trade-Off