Here’s one of the best tips I know for writers, which was told to me by Bruce Eckel. Once you’ve got a reasonable draft, read it out loud. By doing this you’ll find bits that don’t sound right, and need to fix. Interestingly, you don’t actually have to vocalize (thus making a noise) but your
I set up Google Analytics on my site in 2010, and since then use it to track page views to my site. I only care about page views, which I find useful to figure out which pages get the most traffic. It’s interesting data, and sometimes rather useful. But Google collects much more information than
In the past few weeks, multiple “autonomous background coding agents” have been released. Supervised coding agents: Interactive chat agents that are driven and steered by a developer. Create code locally, in the IDE. Tool examples: GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cursor, Cline, Roo Code, Claude Code, Aider, Goose, … Autonomous background coding agents: Headless agents that you
Writing a sophisticated computer program often requires a lot of detailed knowledge. If we do this in Java, we need to know the syntax of the language, the wide range of libraries available to assist us in the work, the various tools required to verify and build our programs. If we do this in Python
Writing a sophisticated computer program often requires a lot of detailed knowledge. If we do this in Java, we need to know the syntax of the language, the wide range of libraries available to assist us in the work, the various tools required to verify and build our programs. If we do this in Python
Writing a sophisticated computer program often requires a lot of detailed knowledge. If we do this in Java, we need to know the syntax of the language, the wide range of libraries available to assist us in the work, the various tools required to verify and build our programs. If we do this in Python
Like most loudmouths in this field, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the role that generative AI systems may play in software development. I think the appearance of LLMs will change software development to a similar degree as the change from assembler to the first high-level programming languages. The further development of languages
Writing a sophisticated computer program often requires a lot of detailed knowledge. If we do this in Java, we need to know the syntax of the language, the wide range of libraries available to assist us in the work, the various tools required to verify and build our programs. If we do this in Python
Writing a sophisticated computer program often requires a lot of detailed knowledge. If we do this in Java, we need to know the syntax of the language, the wide range of libraries available to assist us in the work, the various tools required to verify and build our programs. If we do this in Python
Writing a sophisticated computer program often requires a lot of detailed knowledge. If we do this in Java, we need to know the syntax of the language, the wide range of libraries available to assist us in the work, the various tools required to verify and build our programs. If we do this in Python