software design - Grant Winney

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notepad++professionalism software design

Apr 29, 2020

The nsfw quotes of Notepad++

The author of Notepad++ loves his quotes... unfortunately some of them are nsfw and he recently decided to plaster one on the installer screen. 😬...

software design programming

Oct 17, 2019

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the topmost of them all?

Some devs ask how they can make sure their program is the "most" whatever. The first spot in the notification tray, the first service to run, the topmost of the topmost. They want to make sure that their app is first and foremost before all others... talk about tunnel vision....

software development software design programming

Mar 30, 2018

The malleability of software development

I had an interesting conversation with a coworker several months ago. We were discussing the malleability of programming, and the pros and cons of being able to change pretty much anything at anytime on a whim. You can try nearly anything you want without consequence - or can you?...

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.

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.