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
Five things that are (not) made in JapanJapan is good at inventing things, but in these five cases it was actually just good at adopting things.
Rendering text on a pixel gridFonts in macOS look different from text that’s been rendered in Windows, mostly due to different philosophies about font rendering.
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.
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.
Why camelCase is better than snake_caseDoes it matter whether you use camelCase or snake_case for identifiers? Yes it does! Probably. Maybe.
Why people find it hard to review codeThe experience of reviewing code is negatively impacted by a number of misalignments, which are described in this paper.
Does code structure affect comprehension? On using and naming intermediate variablesThe answer is not “yes” or “no”, but somewhere in between. Who would’ve guessed?
Gender stereotypes are steering girls away from STEMMore female role models may help, but they’re merely a part of the solution.
