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Long running pull requests
There’s nothing quite like merging a pull request that has been pending for months. It’s so satisfying.
At Google, they …
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How far behind a plane is its noise?
If you’re ever near a relatively low flying airplane, you may have noticed that it sounds like it’s in a different spot …
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I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
Here’s a scenario. First, you download an app for a service that has some sort of in-person component, like picking up …
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Playing with a 3D representation of RGB color space
I’m working on a color picking/finding game, and part of it will be asking the user to pick a color from a range of …
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Wikipedia Over WhatsApp
In-flight messaging I was on a Delta flight the other day, and I was thinking about how they offer free messaging from …
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A basic ear training note matching game
This is a game for matching musical notes. JavaScript is needed to run this game. If you don’t have it enabled, I …
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"I don't know the numbers": a math puzzle
I saw a math puzzle the other day on Hacker News. It reads as follows:
Two numbers are chosen randomly, both are …
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Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
Software engineering is cursed with uncertainty.
When we’re solving big new problems with software, if the exact problem …
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Opinionated variable names
I think a lot about the human part of code, especially the work our brains do when writing and reading it and …
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What is a minute, really?
What’s in a minute? It can be sixty long seconds, or it can be just a blink of the eye.
Easy ways to slow time down If …