I read David Crawshaw's recent post about the same topic and I thought it would be nice to do the same. Go I've always tried to be a polyglot programmer to allow myself to learn and be a well rounded software engineer, but as time went on I realized that specializing in a small set areas is also important. I made a...

When we have tasks or other things that keep our minds busy, we usually think about them without taking action. This creates anxiety because we don't do these things; they just constantly occupy our minds. When we write them down, we stop thinking about them. Because we trust ourselves that we will take care of it,...

Over the last three months, I've developed an unusual little nighttime routine: after reading bedtime stories to the kids, I hop into bed and instead of reaching for a fiction book, I'm turning on my 14-year old Asus eeePC 701 miniature laptop and writing x86 assembly language. This is turning out to be an insanely...