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
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.
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…
“That’s beyond the scope of this paper”A quaint little study on the phrase “that’s beyond the scope…” in academic literature.
Bad practices in continuous integration pipelines and processesThis catalogue of 79 bad smells can help you make your continuous integration processes less shitty.
Best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scriptsThis week’s paper presents a catalogue of best practices for infrastructure as code programs.
Beyond the code itself: How programmers really look at pull requestsAn eye tracker shows what developers look at when they see a pull request.
How do design decisions affect the distribution of software metrics?The authors of this week’s paper built a tool that can infer the design role of classes and let it analyse some Java projects.
Belief & evidence in empirical software engineeringDo we actually follow best practices or just… practices?
Five things in Python that I only learned this yearMany people learn Python as their first or second programming language, but only few people bother to master it.
