Development
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Music Cards
Music Cards Our family loves music. We almost always have some sort of music going on in the background at our house. We have a number of Sonos speakers and subscriptions to the major music providers, giving us a lot of flexibility in what to listen to and where. -
Questioning Responsibility
I can imagine paleontologists drooling over our applications’ changelogs. I’m sure they wish they had a record of the exact environment that caused a recently uncovered Protoceratops to grow that very interesting third eyeball. -
Getting started with FFI: Rust & Unity
In my slack time, I’ve started writing games in Unity again. As I’ve been going, though, I found myself wanting some of the tools and features from Rust. I’ve grown accustomed to Rust for performance-sensitive applications; it has several tools and features that make writing those applications easier for me. -
Culling Conditionals with Abstractions
Growing up near the Great Lakes, I’m well aware of the threat that Asian carp are posing on the polluted lakes we endearingly call the “North Coast”. It seems that these carp can’t be stopped. -
The Git Sledgehammer
Got a nasty git conflict, have no idea what’s going on? Completely lost? Try the Git Sledgehammer Let’s assume you’ve on a branch called fancy-new-stuff; you’ve made a bunch of awesome commits here. -
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The business case for modern engineering practices.
From a developer’s perspective, modern engineering practices have a lot of advantages. You can spend less time debugging when you have a suite of automated unit tests to pinpoint problems. Most developers I’ve met who’ve made the switch from conventional coding practices to modern engineering practices have had an almost religious experience with how much it has helped them technically, professionally and even personally. -
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3 Months of Elm: Our Experience
For the last 3 months we have been hard at work building out an ambitious Elm front-end project with one of our clients. We are building products for a very complex industrial-scale business domain.
