Tag: software

All the articles with the tag "software".

• POSIX Compliance and My Life

  2 Nov, 2017

  Why switching from bash to fish or zsh broke my scripts, and what I learned about POSIX compliance and shell portability.

• Software as Abstraction

  30 Sep, 2017

  Why startups should sell before they code, and how software serves as an abstraction layer rather than the product itself.

• Common pitfalls in software development (that I've encountered)

  7 Jun, 2017

  Common software pitfalls from real production code: timezone bugs, hardcoded text, auto-saving models, and blurred test boundaries.

• What I want in a programming language

  20 May, 2017

  Five key traits I look for in a programming language: concurrency, garbage collection, functional libraries, HTTP support, and simplicity.