Totally Enclosed Luminary: On Being Wrong Well
Last week, my hallway light burned out. As one does, I got up on my footstool in the dark, unscrewed the set screws carefully to avoid dropping the g...
cognition
How to Slow Down
Reading and thinking lately, it’s becoming more and more clear to me that we all feel the world is moving too fast. I don’t pretend this feeling is u...
Gather Information
It is impossible to solve a problem without some kind of information about the problem.
Talking to Ducks
Have you ever called or gone to bother a friend or coworker for some information you can’t think of, only to remember the answer the moment you ask? ...
Debugging in Real Life: An Introduction to Debugging
One of the most critical and least popular activities when developing and maintaining software is debugging – fixing code that has been written incor...
