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).
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.
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.
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.
Water, toilets and public health in the Roman eraI’ve been feeling like shit for a while now, so this seems like a good moment to feature an article about literal shit.
“How is your thesis going?”Many PhD students suffer from mental health issues. This study investigates the underlying reasons and explores potential interventions.
A checklist for controlled program comprehension experimentsIf you want to study the effect of something on the understability of code, you need a controlled experiment. What are things to do or avoid?
Negative results for software effort estimationThe reports of COCOMO’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
