I've been mulling this topic for a while and didn't really know how I wanted to present it, but with Linus Torvalds' recent appearance in the news trashing GitHub's suggested commit feature [https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjbtip559HcMG9VQLGPmkurh5Kc50y5BceL8Q8=aL0H3Q@mail.gmail.com/] , I figured I should probably capitalize on…
The work leading up to this release has also led to an explosion of Lua plugins. The movement has been exciting enough that I've given up making my editor compatible with vanilla Vim.…
I'm still no master of the enum, but I'm starting to appreciate how it allows you to group abstract concepts instead of just constant behaviors.…
Rust [https://www.rust-lang.org] is a new-age programming language promising extreme speed without the dangers of using a low-level, memory-managed language like C. It's an extremely exciting language and gaining adoption very quickly, so much so that the HackerNews is regularly dominated by posts of people showing off their…
I'm more of a thinker than a doer. Until presented with a deadline, I will only work on optimizing my approach instead of trying to actually solve the problem. Recently I found myself falling into this trap again. I've been dabbling in a new programming language at work to help…
How a university got banned from contributing to the Linux kernel project. Written for non-engineers.…