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Does someone here want to buy my Starbook?
I'm selling my little Linux laptop (preferably to folks in EU). I just don't use it that much and it's a kickass little machine that should be used more.
Details & how-to are here: https://gist.github.com/mrnugget/75a7e4339a7517433dbd8d69cdae9196
Find of the day: heaptrack. This is super nice.
I'm really fascinated by Chrome's decisin to surface tab memory usage this prominently in the UI.
Who's the target audience? The average user? Are they that concerned about individual tab memory usage? Or is this (my theory) an attempt to get users to understand that it's not Chrome using memory but individual pages?
In any case, it's quite the odd choice to surface such a, uhm, mechanical detail to every user, no?
Wrote about opinions and the one thing the internet doesn't want you to know: you don't have to have an opinion.
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/you-dont-need-an-opinion
This week I was talking with a teammate about a programming language he’s exploring. He said: “I’m just not sure whether I like it or not” Huh, I thought. Right, you think you have to like something or not. Easy mistake to make. The internet’s opinion-density is famously high. It’s natural to think that having and sharing opinions is required.
Some Sunday morning musings on bloat, complexity and speed in software development.
Newest Register Spill: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/has-software-development-become-slower
I'm sick in bed, so of course I had to write about the thing that seems very far away.
Newest Register Spill is here: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/momentum
Just published another Register Spill issue.
I wrote most of it on a plane yesterday and got a bit, uhm, romantic about code again. Excuse me.
But also: read it and you'll find out what 10m air rifle shooting is about.
Yup, all in there: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/every-line-a-chance-for-greatness
I wrote about how "this looks cool" is the thing that got me interested in programming.
And how powerful "this looks cool" can be.
And if I had started with proper learning materials, I wouldn't have made it far.
Newest Register Spill: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/is-looking-cool-underrated-in-education
You’re reading Register Spill, my weekly newsletter in which I share thoughts I can’t keep in my head. A couple weeks ago, on social media, a dad was talking about the best materials to teach his kid how to program. It’s a very interesting thread and I recommend reading it. What stood out to me: most of the learning materials just don’t look
Newest Register Spill is out.
This time: a single thought on well-tested systems, or what a test suite tells me about the production code.
Programming in a Well-Tested System.
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/programming-in-a-well-tested-system
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been listening to the Software Engineering at Google book. I’ve read one or two chapters over the past few years, but never the whole thing. While listening to the chapters on testing, I’ve had something of a personal lightbulb moment. Or: smile-to-myself moment.
