software development

20 Nov

“Task Failed Successfully”

“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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20 Feb

AI Coder Phantasm

The future of coding itself is at stake seems to be the message of many articles and discussions in recent months. Certainly anyone whose career lies in software development and related fields has reason to ponder the significant leaps...
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14 Oct

Communication & Lack Thereof

I am a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing. Sound familiar? Of course it does. This line and many variants of it land on virtually everybody’s resume at some point. Who doesn’t want to be a good...
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31 Aug

5 Dev Tricks I Learned This Week

1. Searching and replacing in vi I hate vi. It’s my least favorite editor, except for maybe something like Ed, but I don’t know anyone who solely uses Ed and loves to talk about how great it is. Yet...
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21 Aug

Tidbits: Copying in Tmux & Ruby Method Internals

A couple of small but interesting items (to me, at any rate), may they come in handy (a little, at least) to your daily work: 1. Copy-paste in tmux. I only just started using tmux, for some reason, and...
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25 Jul

3 Tips & Tricks for Slim (Ruby)

For those coming to the Slim template engine from other tools, or from nothing at all in this area, getting acquainted with Slim can prove daunting — it did for me! Fortunately, it’s the kind of syntactic methodology that...
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24 Jun

To Learn a New Programming Language, Start Over

Programmers take pride in their ability to learn new skills easily, relying on long-ingrained concepts and abstracted methodologies to pick up a new way of working with minimum difficulty. Switching smoothly between tools, languages, or environments is certainly an ability...
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8 Jun

Et Cetera

Tag Archives: software development

“Task Failed Successfully”

AI Coder Phantasm

Communication & Lack Thereof

5 Dev Tricks I Learned This Week

Tidbits: Copying in Tmux & Ruby Method Internals

3 Tips & Tricks for Slim (Ruby)

To Learn a New Programming Language, Start Over

Git: Common Tasks

Lessons in Software Startups: Tackling the Problem

Lessons in Software Startups: Initiation

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