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Rules of Thumb for Software Engineers

Based on my own experience, some of my favorite books and blog posts, and advice from friends, I’ve come up with this. What do you think? What should I add? Please comment! This was my opinion back in 2015 I will create a new post showing what has changed! #### Personal Effectiveness Rules of ...

Major improvements in this blog

Not that anyone reads it :) I admit it's mostly for my entertainment. Tags and Collections are much better supported. The access to raindrop is better. The ui for creating posts is much nicer.

Salas.com rebuilt and cleaned up with the help of Claude Code

If this site looks a little different to you, it’s because I am doing a complete overhaul using Claude code. I have drunk the cool aid 100%! Over the last 2 months I’ve done a lot of “coding”. Actually very liittle coding, more directing Claude Code to code for me. I am using Python ouf of habit ...

Coding is forever changed

Continuing a theme of the previous blog, I am starting to really believe that programming, coding, software development is going to be forever changed. I say this, among other things, from the perspective of someone who has taught software engineering, development, and intro programming courses. I...

I used to be a human coder

You have heard how in the long distant past we had people whose job was "Computer". They were people who computed. They worked alongside mathematicians and engineers (I suppose) to make complicated calculations. I suppose they worked with strict numerical problems but also with estimates, or solving...