I love iPhones. I love iPhone 6 Pluses and iPhone 6s and iPhone 5s’s and iPhone 5cs. I also love iPhone 4s. I’m sure if I had been savvy enough to own one, I would’ve loved the original iPhone. I am a 34 year old, affluent nerd and I’m sticking with my old-ass iPhone 4.
Sorting Algorithms and Piles of Paper — MediumI’m the TA for an algorithms class, and one of my duties is to alphabetize the students’ homework. Students turn in each question separately, which means I have to alphabetize 3 distinct piles of about 100 papers each.
Code copypasta increasingly common in CS educationThe New York Times Bay Area Blog recently took a look at the issue of plagiarism among students in computer science classes. The widespread availability of code on the Internet makes it easy for computer science students to find solutions to common assignments.
Using Async and Await to update the UI ThreadIn a previous article on async and await, I showed a very simple example of how to run some code asynchronously. In this article, I want to take this a little further with another example.
Getters/Setters. Evil. Period.There is an old debate, started in 2003 by Allen Holub in this Why getter and setter methods are evil famous article, about whether getters/setters is an anti-pattern and should be avoided or if it is something we inevitably need in object-oriented programming.
Understanding CSS Specificity / Zillow Engineering BlogFor two years, I have been conducting front-end engineering interviews at Zillow. While every interview is a little different, one thing stands out as common to all of them: hardly anyone understands how CSS specificity works (TL;DR including me).
Rolling ShuttersI remember seeing once the following photo from Flickr, and having my brain melt slightly from trying to figure out what went wrong: The issue was the propeller was rotating as the camera detector ‘read out’, i.e. there was some motion during the exposure of the camera.
Key ExchangeThis clip from the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures shows a simple demonstration of how two people can agree on a secret key, even though all of the...
Your next project needs a white-hat jerk.A couple of years ago, a startup called Stamped created an app and service that let you rate anything and everything. Your local doughnut shop? Rate it and tell your friends. Your favourite beach? Rate it and tell your friends. In fact, rate anything you want!
The Great Unicorn HuntWhen talking with people in the Portland, Oregon tech scene I hear the same thing all the time. “We are always looking for developers. We are hiring and can’t find anyone. If you know anyone looking….”.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.