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
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.
Naming things is hard: Hong Kong street names editionHong Kong’s official languages are Chinese and English. But its street names are a sign that not everyone is proficient in both languages.
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…
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.
How laypeople try (and fail) to design LLM promptsComing up with good prompts for LLMs like ChatGPT can be quite a challenge. This study sheds some light on what makes it so hard.
Truth is a lie: Crowd truth and the seven myths of human annotationThere’s no such thing as the truth, so it makes no sense to treat human annotations as either right or wrong.
JIT feedback – what experienced developers like about static analysisDos and don’ts for people who implement static analysis tools for developers.
How many unit tests should you write?How many unit tests are enough? As always the answer is “It depends”, but fortunately there is a handy rule of thumb that you can use!
