I am not into speed reading nor do I aspire to be. But I do aspire to be consistent with my reading, comprehend more, take lots of notes, and read above my level every now and then.
Merge commit vs. squash commit in git
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It’s an endless debate. Like spaces vs. tabs. emacs vs. vim. Windows vs. Mac. Before joining Automattic, creating a merge commit was the only way I would close PRs.
The Christmas Pig — Book Review
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The tale of a decent, mild-mannered little boy who loses his favorite toy (on a Christmas eve!) during a time when he’s still coping with the separation of his parents.
The Code Breaker — Book Review
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The Code Breaker Review: The book tells the story of CRISPR and related biotechnologies used for gene editing.
Book Review — Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
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The book is equally about the importance of imagination as it is about Tesla and his discoveries.
Book Review — The Book Thief
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What it actually turned out to be was an (almost) warm story of a young german girl trapped in—what appears to her still-evolving sense of the world as—weird and unintuitive ways of a warring Nazi Germany.
Book Review — The Pragmatic Programmer
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The Pragmatic Programmer is a structured collection of tips and practical advice for programmers looking to get better at their craft.
Structured Entertainment — An experiment in fulfillment and productivity
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The practice of performing potentially wasteful activities in a deliberate, structured way during off-work hours or weekends for fulfillment and productivity.
Agile is an adjective, not a textbook
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Teams often tend to follow some off-the-shelf agile model as a written-in-stone guidebook… move away from the very essence of agile
Don’t dread the Thread, it’s just Java async code
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It’s useful to think of threads simply in terms of tools that provide the ability to execute pieces of code asynchronously. Before async-await and Future…