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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in its simplest form, is the idea that the language you speak influences the thoughts you think.

To scratch a personal itch, I created a small, easily browse-able database of NT/OT quotations – that is, places where the New Testament quotes the Old Testament.

For a rewrite or a replacement of existing software, very often you will find that the minimum you must achieve is something that works at least as good as the previous system in every respect, for all your users all of the time.

This post announces fluent-codegen, a Python library for generating Python code.

A jobs web site I belong to just emailed me, telling me that some of the links in my public profile on their site are “broken” and “thus have been removed”.

I don’t know much about about formal methods, so a while back I read Hillel Wayne’s post Let’s prove Leftpad with interest.

A few weeks ago on CCiW Purple Camp, I led devotions one morning, speaking from 1 Thessalonians 1.

In my current project, I am training some junior developers — some of them pretty much brand new developers — and one of the first rules I gave them was “ensure that Copilot (or any other Generative AI assistant that will write code for you in your editor)

In Python, I often have the situation where I create a dictionary, and want to ensure that it is complete – it has an entry for every valid key.

The term technical debt, now used widely in software circles, was coined to explain a deliberate process where you write software quickly to gain knowledge, and then you have to use that knowledge gained to improve your software.