It’s easier to add code than remove and simplify it

Complexity matters because it’s the maintenance of code that consume the most time

Good code is like underwear. Simple, short and and a joy to look at #HoskCodeWisdom

In this post, we use Auth0’s post-user registration hook and Courier’s automations feature to learn how to help a user sign up for your product.

I hope that a simple Hello World example can at least give you a rough idea of how LA can be applied in programming. I won't dwell on the theory; let's see w...

Clojure Fast Matrix Library - GPU and native CPU

How will we build web applications in the future? If progress follows it's usual strategy, then whatever is difficult and valuable to do today will become easy and normal tomorrow. I imagine we'll...

Don’t write real-time APIs. Move your database to the browser. Homebase keeps local data in sync so you can build fast and collaborative React apps.

This post looks at what is missing from the current state-of-the-art web architectures, where they should be improved and what tools we have at hand for that.

5 great talks on Legacy Code that I had the pleasure to host. Learn how to prioritize Tech Debt and rewrite systems incrementally.

And how to get started with it with no prior experience in Machine Learning.

Since I launched my company, I am obsessed with how my team and I can make the cloud easier for anyone. How can we help developers and businesses to deploy their apps as fast as possible in the cloud? Regardless of the specificities of the cloud serv...

Managers ask it. Developers hate it. Know why that is and what you should be asking instead

Set in a non-descript warehouse in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, members of Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. have been busy developing a portal to other worlds—Holodome.

The immersive entertainment company had been incorporated by late Microsoft founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that Allen Russell (38) should die in prison for having an ounce-and-a-half of pot. His lawyers argued that his life sentence was “cruel and unusual pun…

Getting good at chess is one thing. Surpassing the human brain is quite another.

Posted on Thursday 13 May 2021. 1,412 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

The only way to think for yourself is, ironically, to first understand the ideas of other people. Independent thought is won through learning.

One of my first jobs was as an intern working on a laser fusion project at Los Alamos. It was exciting, as in giant lasers and high voltage. My job was also exciting because we really didn't know how much those pellets of deuterium could be smashed and how much neutron flux they would produce.…

TL&DR: No. Here’s another never-ending vi-versus-emacs-type discussion: merchant silicon like Broadcom Trident cannot forward small (64-byte) packets at line rate. Does that matter, or is it yet another stimulating academic talking point and/or red herring used by vendor marketing teams to justify their high prices? Here’s what I wrote about that topic a few weeks ago:

Software Testing is a method to check how the software is working whether it is fulfilling all the expected requirements.

It was only a matter of time before someone showed dots moving across a map to show migration during the pandemic. Again, using USPS change of address data, Yan Wu and Luis Melgar for the Wall Stre…

Linux containers have greatly simplified software distribution. The ability to package an application with everything it needs to run has helped increase stability and reproducibility of environments.

Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. And there could be an interesting turn of events once VMware is spun off to