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
Tiny catastrophes with apostrophesThis is a brief public service announcement for anyone who occasionally uses apostrophes or single quotes (or both).
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.
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.
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.
Scalable transfer patternsPath finding algorithms for public transport take a little bit more work to get right than those for private transport.
Negative results for software effort estimationThe reports of COCOMO’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
A replicable comparison study of NER software: StanfordNLP, NLTK, OpenNLP, SpaCy, GATENamed entity recognition (NER) can be used to detect entities like people and locations in text. Which OSS library gives you the best results?
