Andrew (he/him) articles - 156 total
There is No Such Thing as a Unit Test
"The terms 'unit test' and 'integration test' have always been rather murky, even by the slippery...
Code as Art
Banner Image: Quine Relay -- Copyright (c) 2013, 2014 Yusuke Endoh (@mametter), @hirekoke ...
Drop Everything and Review
The Inner and Outer Development Loops Feedback is critical when developing software; the...
What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust?
I was working through an example in the repo for the Bevy game engine recently and came across this...
Make Invalid States Unrepresentable
Suppose you have a Person class in your program, and that a Person has an age. What type should the...
Start building browser games with Rust!
Interested in gamedev in Rust? Me too! So I put together this bare-minimum tutorial for using SDL2...
What This Senior Developer Learned From His First Big Rust Project
cover photo by Pixabay Here is a bit of background on me according to my company's org chart...
Software Development is About Compromise
Trade-Offs in Software Development "Where's all my CPU and memory gone?" --...
The AI Assistance Paradox: How ChatGPT Helps, But Can Never Replace Human Ingenuity in Programming
Programming is a unique and rewarding field that demands a combination of technical skill and human...
Elegant Multi-Line Shell Strings
Photo by Wendy van Zyl from Pexels The State of Multi-Line Strings Multi-line...
What's Wrong This Time? Part III: The Deep End
Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash Part III: The Deep End At this point, I wasn't sure where to...
What's Wrong This Time? Part II: Electric Bugaloo
Part II: The Bugs There's an old programming joke that goes something like There are only two hard...
What's Wrong This Time? A Debugging Mystery in Three Parts
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash Part I: The Idea "I have an idea"*, I said to...
What's the Difference Between Nominal, Structural, and Duck Typing?
Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash Nominal Typing Most major programming languages with...
Eliminate Unnecessary Builds With Git Hooks in Bash, Java, and Scala
Photo by Liza Summer from Pexels Writing a Git Hook in Bash Git Hooks can be a very...
Rewriting My Personal Website in Next.js and TypeScript
New Year's Day is as good a time as any to roll out a new blog, I suppose. As one of my New Year's...
How I built 4 blogs in 15 minutes
Static Site Generators (SSGs) are a quick and easy way to get a simple blog up and running...
What is a Functor?
Photo by ArtHouse Studio from Pexels Intro The term functor comes from category theory...
(Kinda sloppy) Monad-based Options in Scala
Worked on this one for a while today. What do you think? What would you change? There's a bit of a...
Is your website mobile friendly?
...find out here, using this free tool from Google. If your page isn't live on the web, you can also...
Playing around with browser cookies in Scala.js
Photo by Laura James from Pexels I spent this weekend playing around with Scala.js and learning...
What does "functional programming" mean to you?
Photo by Magda Ehlers from Pexels What crosses your mind when you hear the phrase "functional...
Creating audio from raw bits in Scala
I was curious recently if it was possible to create sound in pure Java / Scala, without using some...
Publish your Scala project to Maven in 5 minutes with Sonatype
Intro Say what you will about JavaScript, but npm has made it incredibly easy for anyone...
Understand Type Variances in 30 Seconds
Type variances are a topic which most Java developers don't usually think about, but which can take s...
Types vs. Classes
Some languages (Java in particular) blur the line between types and classes. You may even see them us...
Implementing a Ternary Operator in Scala
Photo by Magda Ehlers from Pexels Scala doesn't have the traditional ternary operator from Java...
5 Tips for Writing Articles People Will Want to Read
Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels 60-70% of links shared on social media aren't read by the...
Today I Learned: Pointer Swizzling
"In computer science, pointer swizzling is the conversion of references based on name or position to...
What's your most embarrassing coding story?
Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels When you're new to something (like programming), you tend to look...