Winston Puckett articles - 33 total
How to write a great one-pager
One-pagers are the fastest mechanism the software industry uses to gain alignment. A one-pager is a...
How I got a job at AWS
Background I had been working at my first software job for 3.5 years and in that time I...
How to lose weight as a software engineer
Find out where you are. Take a small step towards your goal. Adjust your understanding based on what...
New project, who dis?
There is now a blank public repo for the "fully-featured, infinitely scalable IaaS with predictable...
Making a free, fully-featured, infinitely scalable IaaS with predictable pricing
Pretty loud words, but it's what we need right now. Free tiers and usage-based billing make it...
OpenMP Notes
What is this document? I recently went through Tim Mattson's Introduction to OpenMP, a ...
Introducing: 11ty with reasonable defaults
TL;DR Initialize your 11ty projects with reasonable defaults: npm install -g yo npm...
PipeExtensions 1.3.0 Update
4 weeks ago to the day, I announced version 1.0.0 of PipeExtensions. If you want to learn more about...
Introducing: C# Pipe Extensions!
tl;dr - I've recreated the forward pipe operator from F# to be used in C#. Visit the NuGet page to...
What I learned about code while creating an ECS
Backstory I've been a very opinionated developer from the beginning. My passion has been t...
Understanding Rust Imports
I have to reference this all the time :D Import example.rs into main.rs (same...
I use static by default... But should I?
For code to be self-documenting, I like to do any sort of business rule at the lowest level. If I hav...
Concrete Self-Documenting Code Strategies
Step 1: name things well. I have three posts on Variables, Functions, and Classes if it in...
A short poem for vision
When the weight of reality hits, the glory of illusion shines through. We are not defenceless agains...
Decomposition
"There are no big problems in programming. Only small problems and those that haven't been broken up...
Naming Classes Effectively
A class is a cohesive collection of data, functionality, or both. Class names reveal the purpose of a...
Naming Functions Effectively
Now that we've covered variables, let's move on to functions. Good function names allow a developer t...
Using custom HTML Attributes
Just want to see the result? Head to https://winstonpuckett.com/blog and click on the search button....
Naming Variables Effectively
It's good to have an understanding of the dimensions you can use to specify meaning. Type, significan...
The built-in Windows package manager
I do my development on a VM. I like the feeling of a new computer without any of the bloat or history...
The new reason for creating new languages
In the beginning there was binary. Binary was not human readable, so then came assembly. Then the "hi...
A common language feature I never learned about in college
Did you know you can create additional scopes without specifying a keyword? Let me demonstrate this b...
11ty + DEV CMS
I wanted a CMS I could use on my phone. I was playing with my newly created dev.to profile when I saw...
My favorite feature in Rust
I use C# in production. It's a great language. It has implemented a lot of really powerful features l...
Why limit function size?
I've always thought this was stupid. Not that long functions are good, but an arbitrary, artificial l...
Should we use shorthand?
When I say shorthand, what I mean is "statements that combine multiple lines into one." These exist i...
Why can't we define "readable code"?
I did some advanced writing classes. I learned that when you start out writing, there are rules. Then...
JS: variable && function()
JavaScript is a really weird language. You may come across a statement such as: myVariable &&a...
Software is profitable when it abstracts something new
I keep hearing about this JS library which allows you to write one line instead of two for a very spe...
Refactor vs Port vs Rewrite
I hear "refactor" used when developers mean port or rewrite far too often. It's important to use spec...