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• Code Without Rules

  Helping you become a productive programmer and work saner hours

• Never use the word “User” in your code

  You’re six months into a project when you realize a tiny, simple assumption you made at the start was completely wrong. And now you need to fix the problem while keeping the existing system running—wi...

• How do you get more work done in less time?

  There’s always too much work to do, both at home and at your job. And the weekend is never long enough to recover…

• Don’t get stuck: 6 ways to get unstuck and code faster

  A lot of my time as a programmer, and maybe yours as well, is spent being stuck. My day often goes like this: Write some code. Run the tests. “It failed.” “Why did it fail?” “I don’t know.” “That make...

• The tragic tale of the deadlocking Python queue

  This is a story about how very difficult it is to build concurrent programs. It’s also a story about a bug in Python’s Queue class, a class which happens to be the easiest way to make concurrency simp...

• Enthusiasts vs. Pragmatists: two types of programmers and how they fail

  Do you love programming for its own sake, or do you do for the outcomes it allows? Depending on which describes you best you will face different problems in your career as a software developer. Enthus...