Blogs about Development

In our programs we often have to deal with whitespaces, for example to sanitize input we received from users or other applications. With the release of Java 11, there have been some changes to the …

I completed my tax returns this week. Even the simplified process is not simple enough, especially if you have income from various sources. I also wonder why Dhoni or Akshay are the highest taxpayers in …

The Agrarianism and Revolution Reading Group met weekly for the duration of the Delfina Foundation’s 2022 Politics of Food Programme. Organised by myself and fellow resident Åsa Sonjasdotter, the impetus for the group came from …

A few weeks ago I blogged about how to implement automatic session persistence. This quickly became a really great user experience for me. But something was wrong… The problem was when I would cre...

Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country. I started studying the Japanese language and began to wonder what it would take for …

Coming up for air. What happened is: I lined up the Next Thing (as mentioned at the end of last quarter’s worknotes), and then it promptly proceeded to entirely consume my time and brain for …

Photos: “Here’s a favorites album! You can put the photos you like the most in it! There are other albums, and you can share the whole library with your family, but not your albums. Apart …

The Commodore Amiga Port of Cecconoid -- by Ian Ford [h0ffman] & published by Thalamus -- is out! As you can see, Thalamus have put serious care and attention into the production of the big …

In my opinion, Swift UI is a fantastic jumping-off point for less experienced developers wanting to get into iOS development. It reminds me of my earliest days of programming; just turn the clock back 15 …

I came up with a really slick trick to write E2E tests that deal with sending/receiving emails recently. This is the sort of thing that seems like it's probably usually sort of a nightmare — …

Introduction Antimatter is a platform for teaching and learning through memes. Teachers use Antimatter to invite students to create memes based on their current unit as a means of what teachers call formative assessment, because, …

Uncovering medical device ancestry from the FDA's 510k data and creating a free website for exploring it.

Our first release of 2024 is here! This one features many small improvements and fixes, plus a big new feature many people have asked for: newsletters / email subscriptions! Download v0.15.0 now, or read on …

Though I'd been solving Exercism puzzles for well over a year, I hadn't taken the time to put my solutions in a git repo (publicly…

<Cadey> This is copied from an article on X. Today I flew home via United. United is one of the airlines that is affected by #CrowdStroke. Luckily, I only had carry-on baggage, so the splash …

Several major technology companies provide cloud AI services, offering a range of tools and platforms for developing, deploying, and managing AI applications. Here are some of the most popular vendors of cloud AI.

Following the CrowdStrike outage, I've stumbled upon an articles that claims that developers should have consequences. Do they?

learning a lot about sed, awk and other commands by making a spotify statusbar widget

I noticed recently that I was having trouble moving around in less. I could arrow up and down, but that took a lot of work. I could hit space to go a whole screen down, …

I help maintain a couple of projects and one aspect I find surprising — and a bit troubling — is how often people ask for features without explaining their problem. Maybe it’s already in the …