Parks Computing

This is a transcript of a conversation between two coding agents working together to solve a problem.

I didn't like most of the Sudoku apps I found, so I decided to write one as a fun little evening and weekend project.

Imagine you live in a house where none of the taps have handles.

I was a shy kid who wasn't the type to attract attention to myself.

When I was job hunting, one of the most common questions I would get from recruiters was, "How many years of experience do you have with XYZ technology?"

During one of my many trips to England, I was at a train station late one night, trying to get back to my hotel after visiting with a good friend and colleague.

I'm getting back into the retail point-of-sale space, and I needed a way to brush up on my skills at identifying barcode symbologies on sight, so I cooked up a little web app that generates barcode flash cards.

My first trip to England was in the summer of 2013.

There was once a software project that was run by an American company for a client in the UK.

During the course of a regular working day, I receive a lot of screenshots like this from well-meaning colleagues:

This is an actual, honest-to-goodness advertisement clipped from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution a few years ago.

Over my life as a software developer, I've collected several rules of thumb that guide me in my work, but these two "laws" have been remarkably useful.

It seems everyone's talking about "vibe coding" and how anyone can write Space Invaders in an afternoon.

I use train tickets and boarding passes as bookmarks, which of course makes me a weirdo in a couple of ways....

Fitting almost 35 years of professional experience into a four-page Microsoft Word document is a daunting task!

Once, when working for a professional-services organisation, I managed a team of business analysts and another team of software engineers.

If you've been around software product management long enough, you've encountered the concept of "personas," which are fictional characters that represent types of system users.

This post was inspired by an article on Cal Newport's site that caused me to reflect on my path to my current career.

I'm in the process of porting my site to ASP.NET Razor Pages using .NET 7.0, hosted on Azure.

The FizzBuzz test is just one of those things you have to write, apparently.

This is part 2 of a three-part series on implementing a set-associative cache in C#.

A couple of weeks ago, I had never heard of a set-associative cache.

As I begin to write this article, it’s 8:30 on the Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend, the de facto start of the summer season in the United States.

Late last year, I published an article entitled “How I Plan Every Minute of My Day to Stay Productive,” where I described my personal daily workflow of planning the tasks that I need to accomplish and then adjusting that plan as necessary throughout the d…

I realized one day that I had never implemented Conway’s Game of Life, which is something of a rite of passage for young computer-science students.

Over the years, I have progressed from being a software developer who focuses on code all day, to a designer who designs and codes, to a technical lead who communicates a design and technical strategy to a team of developers, to a technical and project le…

The pbrain programming language is an extension I made to the Brainf**k programming language that adds the ability to define and call procedures.

In response to a comment regarding the console-based version of the drag sensitivity utility, I’ve created a new version of the utility that includes a graphical interface and a means of testing the drag settings in the interface.

Inspired by an article by Raymond Chen about how to correctly change the Windows mouse drag sensitivity, I wrote a simple utility called dragsens.

I found Eric Raymond’s Unix Koans of Master Foo several years ago and simply loved them.

I spend a lot of time and effort trying to get better at the craft of software development.

I love the Internet!