5 Stages of Programmer Incompetence « yield thought

Good programmers know that a lack of superficial code quality and consistency is the best indicator of deeper systemic problems in a project. If you ever need a quick estimate of the quality of a codebase, this is what you should look at first.

Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the whole team quaked. The idea that we could do all this work and then Apple could de...

You know that layouting HTML e-mails is terrible.

For more fun, check Litmus' list of top 10 e-mail developments of 2015 that did not make things better.

I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts on country roads, so that customers of our iCar may better understand why we don't allow iCars to ever get on country roads.

Redis.current will be removed without replacement in redis-rb 5.0.
Version 4.6.0 adds deprecation warnings for Redis.current and Redis.current=:

`Redis.current=` is deprecated and will be removed in 5.0.

If your application still ...

Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.

Programming is a deceptively damaging field to be in, partly because it doesn't seem like you're doing much, and also because of the attitude many programmers have toward their body. You should care about keeping yourself healthy because, when you...

A week after Tommy Refenes (Super Meat Boy) declared the Apple App Store to be the Tiger Electronics handheld of this generation (part of the Indie Game Maker Rant session), Apple has removed his zit-popping game Zits & Giggles from the App Store....

When Java first shipped, Bill Joy and James Gosling and the other members of the Java team thought that Java should have generics, only they didn't have the time to do a good job designing it in. So because there would be no generics in Java, at l...

I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names.