Surprising Programmer Tools #53: The Sudoku

I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a split keyboard with home row mods...

As of the beginning of September, I’ve been programming “with purpose” for a decade. Before then it was just a hobby — something I could do in my room while burying my head in the sand about the Physics degree I was failing at the time. But that summer, I realised maybe if I was choosing to spend all my free time coding, maybe it was worth trying...

I enjoy reading other people’s blog posts, but I often enjoy reading the comments more. The post itself becomes a jumping-off point for further discussion, where people can add critique, additional supporting evidence, or their own alternative explanations. Or just get side-tracked by one specific line in the article and start a whole flame-war...

Why do you write tests? I’ve been thinking about this question a lot recently. I’ve been trying to motivate some teammates that tests are worth writing. But I’m going to convince them of that, I need to be able to answer that question for myself, right? Tests sometimes get portrayed as one of the chores of software development. As a new...

I’ve updated my blog. And of course, the first thing any self-respecting developer blogs about with a new blog design is that redesign itself. This is that post. Design I confess: I am not a designer. This may be obvious. But I enjoy learning about design through practice, in much the same way that a child enjoys learning about cooking by making...