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
How long does it take for a child to pass a LEGO figurine head?This is a summary of a paper that poses a simple question and uses a simple method to find a simple answer.
“That’s beyond the scope of this paper”A quaint little study on the phrase “that’s beyond the scope…” in academic literature.
Five things that are (not) made in ChinaMost of your stuff probably comes from China. Confusingly there also some “Chinese” things that come from somewhere else.
Bad practices in continuous integration pipelines and processesThis catalogue of 79 bad smells can help you make your continuous integration processes less shitty.
Best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scriptsThis week’s paper presents a catalogue of best practices for infrastructure as code programs.
How laypeople try (and fail) to design LLM promptsComing up with good prompts for LLMs like ChatGPT can be quite a challenge. This study sheds some light on what makes it so hard.
Continuous integration practices (Taylor’s version)This study suggests that continuous integration practices are kind of like Scrum, in the sense that everyone does something different.
There is a time and place for log statements, but when and where?Logging statements can be very valuable for various reasons, but aren’t entirely free of cost. What’s the best way to use them?
What do regular expression bugs look like?This study gives us a better understanding of the practical problems faced by developers when using regular expressions.
