The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level, in which one can be absolutely precise. Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist Poem: Abstraction Towers Abstraction on abstraction, Put some more on top of that; Abstraction's the attraction, Till there ain't no turning back. I don't...

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. Proverbs 3:18, The Bible David Heinemeier Hansson (also known as DHH) is one of my favorite programmers. I like how blunt he is about programming as a whole, his ideas on entrepreneurship and how he has other activities...

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Job 3:25, The Bible I knew it has brewing for a while, but I never thought it would actually come. This whole time I thought I would be able to make an escape from it before it happened, but boy was I wrong and...

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. Alan Kay, the father of OOP Poem: Objects everywhere My adapter needs a service To adapt to any purpose, And that service kinda functions As a helper at the junction Between builders;...

Here are a lists of blog posts I've enjoyed reading recently on the web 🕸️: Doing the thing is doing the thing by zerosleeps What I actually want to say in tech interviews by Nelson Qt Widgets to Qt Quick, An Application Journey Part 1 by the Qt company The cults of TDD and GenAI by Drew DeVault Emmet for HTML by...

Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Poem: Record Rack to the rescue Inventory tracking by the books is such a pain; For every sale I make, I have to calculate the gain. But apps like Record Rack have saved the day, it's such a hack; It solved my tracking...

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Philippians 2:3-4, The Bible Poem: Business is empathy They run from you because you drool for cash; They know...

When you understand things, there's no more magic. Tim Burners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web In my last post, I spoke about how web content is made with HTML and how to write your first lines of HTML code. I also mentioned that HTML is modeled after real-life documents. In this post, I'd like to go a little...

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. Tim Burners-Lee, creator of the world wide web HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is to the world wide web as English is to Americans; it is not only the language with...

And let it be known I'll beat a motherf*cker to death You'll get a knife stuck in your head so you don't f*cking forget Pat Stay, battle rapper Today I was listening to some of my favorite songs and I started remembering some of the bars that have remained in my brain longer than I expected. Ladies and gentlemen,...

The web is a continuum, not a platform. Alex Russell, Google Chrome team A couple weeks ago, I started a brand new web project I call Record Rack. It's an inventory application that I'm working on with an old college mate specifically targeted for the African market. Maybe, I'll talk more about the story of Record...

He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. Psalms 147:15, The Bible Poem: Bourne Again I'm born again like Matt Murdock — Transformed when I use Bash; Performing signs and miracles, My fingers flinging fast 👨‍💻. Bash and the terminal are two of the best things to happen to computing....