DistSys @Microsoft - @DuraznoConf Organizer. Coauthor of RabbitMQ in Action. Ex 🍎 - Ex RabbitMQ Core Dev. Opinions my own and not those of my employer.
Aug 11, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
I've put a lot of thought trying to understand why as an industry we essentially don't care about code quality in the sense of how easy it is for others to understand our code
While yes, there's been efforts around "clean code" that's not the same as writing code that's easier to understand, for some definition of easier & understand
Apr 27, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Programming advice from 1976 by Glenford Myers from IBM Research
“The programmer’s goal must be writing source code for the primary audience of people instead of machines”
Software should be easier to test & maintain, not to write
Sep 2, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I just published “Programming Languages are not Languages” medium.com/p/programming-…
In this article I discuss how some linguistic concepts like the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis apply (or doesn't) to programming languages.
