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.
Category: Coding & Tech
Software development quirks and technologies that interest me.
Agile is an adjective, not a textbook
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentTeams 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
Posted on under Coding & Tech — Leave a commentIt’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…
Clean Code
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 3 CommentsThere’s a bunch of technical books sitting in my Amazon wishlist for quite some time. Poor books! They could not end up in my shopping cart for a myriad of reasons, laziness to read being chief amongst them. The importance of reading technical books simply cannot be overstated. Or reading articles, for that matter. Reading […]
Fixing headphone jack in Ubuntu 20.04
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 7 CommentsAs weird and funny as it may sound, Ubuntu isn’t able to play sounds on my laptop‘s 3.5mm headphone jack. Yes, the gentle, innocuous, innocent headphone jack that we all love and use. And mine’s not even a super-fancy laptop with uncommon hardware. It’s a Dell Inspiron 7000 series laptop with an Intel chipset. How […]