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Solution to an ugly cookie law

July 4, 2018 • 6 min read • 1114 words • software engineering

Don't Kid Yourself About Software Bootcamps

June 30, 2017 • 7 min read • 1304 words • software engineering

To actually ship software, add constraints

June 28, 2017 • 6 min read • 1242 words • software engineering

Hackers and Cooks: how building software really feels like

June 26, 2017 • 4 min read • 725 words • software engineering

Great Movies About Design

June 5, 2017 • 2 min read • 252 words • software engineering design

Which Open Source Projects Should You Contribute To

May 31, 2017 • 5 min read • 939 words • software engineering

15 Tips on Staying Productive Offline as a Software Engineer

May 22, 2017 • 7 min read • 1487 words • software engineering

What it's like to write software in the hardware industry

May 13, 2017 • 7 min read • 1326 words • software engineering

Treat Continuous Integration as your virtual user

May 7, 2017 • 3 min read • 434 words • software engineering

Single Command Principle

April 29, 2017 • 4 min read • 734 words • software engineering

SSH VPN on OSX with SSHuttle in 3 minutes

April 9, 2017 • 2 min read • 323 words • tools devops

How software engineer should invest in career growth

March 31, 2017 • 11 min read • 2182 words • software engineering

Are you a good Open Source contributor?

March 28, 2017 • 12 min read • 2353 words • software engineering open source

Movies every software engineer should watch

March 13, 2017 • 2 min read • 226 words • software engineering

How to use Ansible Vault with LastPass

March 5, 2017 • 3 min read • 567 words • software engineering security

What's the most expensive stage of software engineering?

February 28, 2017 • 2 min read • 389 words • software engineering

Making pull requests that merge

February 18, 2017 • 6 min read • 1126 words • productivity software engineering

Learn programming: self study guide

February 13, 2017 • 9 min read • 1837 words • productivity software engineering

How much software engineer should invest in career growth

February 6, 2017 • 6 min read • 1183 words • software engineering productivity

Why you should start programming on UNIX

January 28, 2017 • 3 min read • 504 words • software engineering

The best OSX file manager

January 18, 2017 • 3 min read • 459 words • tools

Reading 101 for software engineers

January 17, 2017 • 6 min read • 1126 words • software engineer

That's why you haven't accomplished enough in 2016

January 2, 2017 • 3 min read • 449 words • productivity software engineering

Building an Open Source iOS app: lessons learned

December 12, 2016 • 2 min read • 243 words • ios open source software engineering

Failure of my one post per week goal

November 2, 2016 • 3 min read • 465 words • miscellaneous

Dealing with large jobs on Travis-CI

July 25, 2016 • 4 min read • 772 words • software engineering tools

What I learned from connecting 60 projects to CI system

July 11, 2016 • 5 min read • 933 words • software engineering

What Docker really is

June 27, 2016 • 5 min read • 867 words • tools

Use as few tools as possible

May 16, 2016 • 4 min read • 714 words • tools

How to ask questions on Stack Overflow?

April 18, 2016 • 3 min read • 450 words • tools

Don't document. Automate!

April 11, 2016 • 3 min read • 435 words • software engineering

Dropbox on iOS is disappointing

April 4, 2016 • 2 min read • 324 words • usability

I've got an iPad Pro yesterday

March 21, 2016 • 8 min read • 1605 words • usability

How to store SSH passphrases in LastPass

December 7, 2015 • 2 min read • 392 words • software engineering tools

How I use transparency during development

December 2, 2015 • 1 min read • 138 words • tools

Quiz: portability of “find” command

November 29, 2015 • 1 min read • 68 words • tools

My GitHub Wishlist: Consolidate Request

November 23, 2015 • 3 min read • 592 words • tools

Computer History from Giants Themselves

November 16, 2015 • 2 min read • 366 words • entrepreneurship

How to use nginx on Travis (or other) CI system

November 1, 2015 • 2 min read • 351 words • software engineering

Subtle difference between FreeBSD, MacOSX and Linux printf

October 28, 2015 • 2 min read • 219 words • software engineering freebsd

Top 3 bugs I make in shell scripts

October 12, 2015 • 2 min read • 410 words • software engineering

Pastebin adds DOS new-line separators at the end snippets

October 5, 2015 • 2 min read • 289 words • tools

wget in 9 lines of Python For Hostile Environments

October 4, 2015 • 1 min read • 161 words • programming

Do You Have a Favorite Shell Trick?

September 28, 2015 • 2 min read • 320 words • programming

Why it's not about self-driving

September 23, 2015 • 9 min read • 1706 words • entrepreneurship

Facebook Paper and Copyright screens

September 8, 2015 • 4 min read • 666 words • books

(Probably) the single biggest collection of Ruby scripts

September 1, 2015 • 2 min read • 343 words • programming

How do you evaluate new technologies?

August 26, 2015 • 4 min read • 836 words • entrepreneurship

I wish Ruby and Python stopped changing so much

August 17, 2015 • 4 min read • 725 words • programming software engineering

Non-continuous innovation = dangerous or “Amazon Ad Platform Cleanups”

August 10, 2015 • 3 min read • 622 words • entrepreneurship

Command Line Interface to GoDaddy.com

August 3, 2015 • 3 min read • 504 words • tools programming

Optimize for the Developer’s Time, Not the Machine’s

July 28, 2015 • 4 min read • 640 words • entrepreneurship software engineering

Why the Go Language Won't Be Successful

July 22, 2015 • 5 min read • 1063 words • programming

Source Code from "Programmer Guide to NCurses" by Dan Gookin

July 8, 2015 • 1 min read • 132 words • software engineering programming

How the best companies do Continuous Integration

June 29, 2015 • 3 min read • 574 words • software engineering tools

Fixing Middleman-spellcheck

June 20, 2015 • 5 min read • 887 words • software engineering tools

Random notes on "Barely usable"

August 6, 2012 • 3 min read • 472 words • usability

Almost usable — Sharp MFP printer menu

July 2, 2012 • 4 min read • 734 words • usability

Figuring out confusing assembly instructions — Koszek trick #2

June 26, 2012 • 2 min read • 348 words • software engineering tools

Cross-compile GNU assembler for MIPS

June 10, 2012 • 1 min read • 199 words • software engineering tools

fpurge() hack — Koszek trick #1

May 19, 2012 • 2 min read • 297 words • software engineering

01001011, or on the art of snare drum patterns

May 17, 2012 • 8 min read • 1496 words • software engineering

Funny mistakes and The Toyota Way

May 14, 2012 • 8 min read • 1534 words • usability tools

Unfriendly IT, or how to get Perforce diffs e-mailed to you

May 13, 2012 • 2 min read • 392 words • software engineering tools

How to write a good Google Summer of Code Proposals

April 28, 2012 • 8 min read • 1550 words • open source

Google Summer of Code — how proposals are evaluated

April 27, 2012 • 5 min read • 948 words • freebsd open source

Google Summer of Code — my take

April 26, 2012 • 5 min read • 970 words • freebsd open source