What’s Wrong With Pie ChartsHumans have a hard time comparing areas. Try it for yourself: Which slice is the largest? Which is the smallest?Can you... | Continue reading
As you’re building your application, you want to ensure that your customers have a bug-free user experience as much as possible. Since bugs show up... | Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the release of Earthly v0.6 - our 80th release to date! This version promotes a number of features from Experimental, or... | Continue reading
When the AWK tutorial came out, one of the questions on hacker news was how you use AWK with CSV (comma-separated value) files.The thing that preve... | Continue reading
“OH GAWD”Around the time of the subprime mortgage collapse, I was working in an enterprise software company. I worked in a large open space full of... | Continue reading
It turns out Awk is pretty simple. It has only a couple of conventions and only a small amount of syntax. It’s straightforward to learn, and once y... | Continue reading
In this article, I’m going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works. | Continue reading
ObservabilityIf you do software-as-a-service development and you have paying customers, you at some point learn about the need for operational moni... | Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surpr... | Continue reading
Here is a problem. You are tasked with improving the hot loop of a Python program: maybe it is an in-memory sequential index of some sort. The slow part is the updating, where you are adding a new sorted list of items to the already sorted index. You need to combine two sorted li … | Continue reading
Some modern development practices are easiest to understand from a historical perspective: things started a certain way, and then steps were added or removed as conditions changed. Git branching, for example, is like that. | Continue reading
Here is a somewhat fictionalized personal story. I’ve changed the names of the people and the technology used. | Continue reading
Recently, I made some contributions to the continuous integration process for Jekyll. Jekyll is a static site generator created by GitHub and written in Ruby, and it uses Earthly and GitHub Actions to test that it works with Ruby 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, and JRuby. | Continue reading
I’ve noticed something interesting about the types of programming languages people like. It’s something that doesn’t seem to come up in various discussions of programming language preferences. | Continue reading