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Would you like to become better at crafting pull requests and reviewing code? Here are the 13 tips from my latest book that you can use in your daily developer activity.

[Web master's note: Northern California film critic Derrick Bang — the eldest, youngest and only son of this site's primary jazz guru, Ric Bang — has surveyed the holiday jazz scene for more than a …

Some notes on freedom of speech TL; DR – To unlock the promise of freedom of speech, we need to pair it with the duty to be constructive. Without thoughtfulness, we have a less free, …

Our podcasts, Sleep Tight Stories and Sleep Tight Relax, have been nominated for Outstanding Kids and Family Series by the Canadian Podcast Awards. Last year, Sleep Tight Science won in this category. While I don’t …

(One of my summaries of the one-day Pycon NL conference in Utrecht, NL). Brett is the writer of the effective python book. As an example, he picked a calculator that can add and multiply integers. …

In October I attended the Fantastic Futures conference in Canberra. Fantastic Futures is organised by AI4LAM, and brings together people from archives, libraries and museums to talk about how they are, or could be, using …

LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to …

8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!

Sometimes, I’ve just felt a meeting or pitch slipping away from me. In desperation, I start to thrash around for a way out – throwing new ideas or angles into the conversation, trying to dig …

TL;DR: probably not At the weekend I picked up a copy of Seth Godin’s 2020 book The Practice: Shipping Creative Work which was staring out at me from the window of our local Oxfam bookshop. …

👋 Fellow Webnerds! This is a written version of my talk “Designing DX”. I just want to lollygag about with y’all about this squishy concept of DX. We’ll draw ideas and parallels from the real …

Today I learned how to use shell scripting to activate my virtual environment automatically when I change directories. Automatically activating virtual environments Since I can remember, whenever I cd into a directory that contains a …

We just wrapped up our 13th conference. This was our first three-day event. Up until this one, all past FLOCK events basically fit into a single day. Each event has its own theme, curated for …

Since getting married earlier this month, we’ve been busy assembling a giant package of documentation for Rakhat’s US green card application. The insane complexity of an I-485 adjustment of status application is another article in …