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It seems traditionally programming is seen as an activity where you make the computer do what you want.

One of the questions that I’ve wondered about is how do you choose how to decompose a program into smaller pieces?

I’ve worked my entire career in web development.

This post is a critique on some Programming as Theory Building related points in Sean Goedecke’s post In defense of not understanding your codebase.

For the longest time, I’ve had a stack of old 3.5” floppy disks.

I recently read philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s book The Concept of Mind, as it was one of the books referenced by Peter Naur’s text Programming as Theory Building (which I wrote about here previously).

Ever since I first used Svelte, there was something about it that felt very “natural”.

In this post I’ll show you a simple method to collect and display backlinks from Obsidian markdown files using Hakyll.

We use all kinds of metaphors in programming.

I would like to present an opposing view to the idea that “Traditional programming is dead”, which is being announced by software development influencers.