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Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. — Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach Writing prose and writing code have a lot in common, but perhaps the biggest similarity is that neither writers nor programmers can get things done on time. Writers are notorious for missing deadlines. Programmers are notorious for being wildly off w

Update #1: this post hit the front page of r/programming and HN. Thank you for the great feedback! I’ve added some corrections below. Update #2: this blog post has been translated into Japanese! Every now and then, I stumble across a programming language that does something so different that it changes how I think about coding. In this post, I want to share some of my favorite finds. This is not y

In this post, I’m going to explain why installing, configuring, and maintaining software in development, testing, and production environments can be a complete nightmare. After that, I’m going to show you a better way to do it using Docker. Finally, I’ll introduce a small open source project I created called docker-osx-dev, which makes it easier to setup a productive development environment with D

I love a good tech talk. I like to watch them, I like to give them, and now that I have lots of free time on my hands, I’ve put together a list of the must-see talks for every programmer. In this list, I’ve avoided language or library specific talks and instead focused on high-level, general topics that apply to everyone: The future of technology User interface Programming language design Software