🔗 Essays on programming I think about a lot

Essays on programming I think about a lot | benkuhn.net Every so often I read an essay that I end up thinking about, and citing in conversation, over and over again. Here’s my index of all the ones of those I can remember! Nelson Elhage, Computers can be understood Dan McKinley, Choose Boring Technology Sandy Metz, The Wrong Abstraction Patrick McKenzie, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Thomas Ptacek, The Hiring Post...

May 29, 2024 · 1 min · 156 words

🔗 LemonAppDev/konsist

GitHub - LemonAppDev/konsist: Konsist is a powerful static code analyzer tailored for Kotlin, focused on ensuring codebase consistency and adherence to coding conventions. Konsist is a powerful static code analyzer tailored for Kotlin, focused on ensuring codebase consistency and adherence to coding conventions. Konsist is a linter that guards the consistency of Kotlin projects by enforcing a cohesive code structure and unified architecture. Konsist guards are written in the form of unit tests (JUnit / Kotest)....

May 24, 2024 · 1 min · 117 words

🔗 dandavison/delta

GitHub - dandavison/delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output Code evolves, and we all spend time studying diffs. Delta aims to make this both efficient and enjoyable: it allows you to make extensive changes to the layout and styling of diffs, as well as allowing you to stay arbitrarily close to the default git/diff output.

May 24, 2024 · 1 min · 59 words

🔗 Catalog of Refactoring and Design Patterns

Catalog of Refactoring Refactoring.Guru makes it easy for you to discover everything you need to know about refactoring, design patterns, SOLID principles, and other smart programming topics. See also: The Catalog of Refactoring The Catalog of Design Patterns

May 5, 2024 · 1 min · 38 words

🔗 PRQL - Pipelined Relational Query Language

PRQL Pipelined Relational Query Language, pronounced “Prequel” PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement For example, “Top N by group”: from employees group role ( sort join_date take 1 ) WITH table_0 AS ( SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( PARTITION BY role ORDER BY join_date ) AS _expr_0 FROM employees ) SELECT * FROM table_0 WHERE _expr_0 <= 1

October 26, 2023 · 1 min · 67 words

🔗 Leporello.js

Leporello.js · Interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript Your code is executed instantly as you type, with the results displayed next to it. No need to set breakpoints for debugging. Just move the cursor to any line and see what’s happening. Reminds me of some of the concepts from Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor.

October 3, 2023 · 1 min · 55 words

🔗 Google Style Guides

Google Style Guides This project (google/styleguide) links to the style guidelines we use for Google code. AngularJS Style Guide Common Lisp Style Guide C++ Style Guide C# Style Guide Go Style Guide HTML/CSS Style Guide JavaScript Style Guide Java Style Guide Objective-C Style Guide Python Style Guide R Style Guide Shell Style Guide Swift Style Guide TypeScript Style Guide Vim script Style Guide

September 17, 2023 · 1 min · 63 words

🔗 PNGme: An Intermediate Rust Project

Introduction - PNGme: An Intermediate Rust Project This guide is intended to fill the gap between heavily directed beginner tutorials and working on your own projects. The primary goal here is to get you writing code. The secondary goal is to get you reading documentation. If you haven’t read The Rust Programming Language yet, I highly encourage you to do so before attempting this project. This guide does not cover any language features....

September 7, 2023 · 1 min · 73 words
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💭 Mental model for Booleans vs Enumerates

In programming, Booleans and Enumerates are common data types to represent the concept of “choice”. When there are several things to choose from, the Enumerate is the only one to support it, so that’s clear. But what about when you have two things to choose from? There might be some confusion between both data types since either of them supports handling binary choices. The confusion arrises in particular when you want to add the choice of a new behaviour, on top of an existing one....

May 15, 2023 · 2 min · 352 words

💭 PHP shenanigans

Pop quiz about PHP and something we’ve stumbled upon last week, while working on a client’s codebase. ...

April 15, 2019 · 2 min · 294 words