pragmatism - Grant Winney

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May 01, 2020

The Law of Demeter, a practical example

Our manager organized a book club at work, and we're currently running through The Pragmatic Programmer - the original, not...

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Aug 03, 2018

Comments are not evil

I'm not talking about general comments found across the web - those frequently suck and I even wrote an extension to hide them all. No, I'm talking about comments in code, which (done right) are absolutely helpful... and even necessary!...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.