It's long been known that waterfall is the superior model for developing software, and we finally (~12 years ago, but probably didn't hit its schedule) have a conference to discuss these important techniques.
It's long been known that waterfall is the superior model for developing software, and we finally (~12 years ago, but probably didn't hit its schedule) have a conference to discuss these important techniques.
Aug 6th: I've updated my 2018 reading list to include my June and July picks.
Jul 5th: If you have a SnapScan S1300 (very excellent document scanner) and can't get it to work under Windows 10, try following these instructions
This is a genius idea - using a 3D printer to make giant versions of classic Lego sets.
May 23rd: MousePoint is a fun little progressive clicker game that subverts the actual clicking aspect. It's a pretty short play (about 6 minutes), but a lovely example of the genre.
Apr 16th: Ideally MySQL include this in a future version of mysqldump, but here's a neat little utility to split extended inserts into one row per line. This allows you to use extended inserts (for much faster importing of large tables) while having the ability to grep and diff rows easily.
Software algorithms as Ikea instruction manuals.
Turning a roll of aluminium foil into a knife, without any special tools
Watching the full 11 minutes is time well spent
Jan 31st: If you use Sublime text for coding or taking notes, then turning on autosave might be super useful. This ensures that my files get saved and synced to dropbox without me having to do anything, so I can always pick up where I left off on a different machine.
If you liked paperclips, a dark room, etc but you only want to spend 10-15m playing then, Seedship is definitely worth checking out. More games like this please!
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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