The Toilet PaperCan a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?Published 22 Oct 2023Written by Chun Fei Lung 🤔Back to top
Naming things is hard: Hong Kong street names editionHong Kong’s official languages are Chinese and English. But its street names are a sign that not everyone is proficient in both languages.
The Eurovision Song Contest and the European UnionThe Eurovision Song Contest is technically not related to the European Union, but it does affect how the EU is perceived abroad.
Ghost writing providers for essays and assignments are cheap and plentifulGhost writers aren’t particularly scary, but there are still very good reasons to fear them if you are an educator. Happy Halloween!
Best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scriptsThis week’s paper presents a catalogue of best practices for infrastructure as code programs.
Bad practices in continuous integration pipelines and processesThis catalogue of 79 bad smells can help you make your continuous integration processes less shitty.
Code smells for model-view-controller architecturesHere’s a list of six things you should not do in an MVC architecture.
Crowdsourcing in computing education research: Case Amazon MTurkCrowdsourcing survey responses using Amazon Mechanical Turk is easy. But how useful are those responses?
An empirical validation of cognitive complexity as a measure of source code understandabilityThere’s a new way to measure the understandability of your source code and this time it actually seems to work reasonably well.
Your app needs more than just a dark and high-contrast modeDark and high-contrast modes help make apps more accessible, but not all support them well enough.