I asked an LLM to do a code refactor for me.

Microsoft is.

A brief history of JavaScript modularity and why ESModules are the future. Includes a technique to make CommonJS modules work in browsers.

Running in Circles is Basecamp’s view of agile product management. They acknowledge the value of working in cycles, but add three pieces: having the time to focus, being able to modify the original plan, and tackle the core unknowns of the feature first. The first two are enablers that are provided to the makers by management.…

Born for it, on how the image of software developers came about.

An example on how changing the language for thinking may help us to simplify our programs.

I’ve been reading how Google organizes its codebase: they maintain a hyper-large repository containing everything, since the beginning of the company. I guess you may find Gmail, Photos, or AdWords there. You won’t find Android or Chrome, though – these are open source projects. The repository is 86Tb of data, 1 billion of files, and 35 billion…

The third post of the series about the differences between values and references is focused on a practical example, the same trick that is at the core of React and Redux performance.

This is the second post of a series about how fundamental operations work depending on the nature of data they work with. JavaScript is used as example.

The introductory post of a series about how fundamental operations behave depending on the nature of the data they work with. JavaScript will be used as an example.

Just this week, two of my colleagues at Automattic have written about Functional Programming concepts. Check Grzegorz’s A journey to Functional JavaScript and Miguel’s Functors and monads: an introduction.

Reflections on a little thing I made, to learn how to better create the bigger ones.

map and friends are more precise, sophisticated ways to talk about consistent patterns in data manipulation. Using them over for is analogous to using the word “cake” instead of “the kind of food that you make by whipping egg whites and maybe adding sugar”. Interestingly, you can eventually add new layers of category on top of established layers:…

Precise words make communication more efficient. Arguably, software development is about managing conceptual complexity. Simple made easy, by Rich Hickey is a talk that tackles those two topics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSwPOpOKr3w Two takeaways from this talk: The differences between simple and easy. Simplicity is an objective measure, and its units are the level of interleaving (of concepts).…

Slack se une al club de los que usan PHP: Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if given the choice; and that some of the most extraordinarily successful projects in history use it. This is not quite…