Pangram

Pictograms seem hard. Coming up with an image whose meaning is immediately and clearly obvious to most people is probably impossible. There’s no surprise that there’s a long list of commonly-accepted icons that are just not great: The “save” floppy. This one made some sense for a brief period of history, so here it is…

I recently learned about the custom of keeping your bees apprised of recent events Chapple described the practice to the press as such: “You knock on each hive and say, ‘The mistress is dead, but don’t you go. Your master will be a good master to you.’” I work remote, at a particularly turbulent time…

Unit tests are hard!They’re not hard in the same way as, say, a stubborn concurrency bug is hard. Unit tests are hard because you have to write a lot of them, and they have to be useful and correct, now and forever. It’s especially tempting to commit unit tests as soon as they start passing,…