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 ChinaMost of your stuff probably comes from China. Confusingly there also some “Chinese” things that come from somewhere else.
Why “Nigerian” scammers say they are from NigeriaDear Sir/Madam, I am a prince of the Nigerian royal family and I urgently need your help…
“That’s beyond the scope of this paper”A quaint little study on the phrase “that’s beyond the scope…” in academic literature.
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.
The challenges of end-to-end testing and how to face themEnd-to-end tests can help you discover problems in web applications, but sadly are not free of problems themselves.
Do software engineers use autocompletion features differently than other developers? If you suspect that Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again, you’re probably right.
Please turn your cameras on: Remote onboarding of software developers during a pandemicThis week’s paper discusses the challenges of remotely onboarding new developers at Microsoft.
How (not) to use the variance inflation factorThe variance inflation factor (VIF) is often used to find and remove multi-collinearity in a regression model. Does that make sense?
