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.
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.
Does goal-oriented requirements engineering achieve its goal?Requirements engineering generally isn’t taken very seriously. Why not?
Sharing software engineering research on LinkedInSharing is caring, but if you really care about sharing research you should probably do more than just share links to papers.
Is there a time and place for single-letter variable names?We are often told that variable names should be meaningful and avoid abbreviations, yet some variables are simply named “k”. What gives?
Introduce yourself to your team by writing a personal user manualYour team mates might not be able to read your mind, but at least they could learn more about you by reading your user manual.
