Code style: “fronting” is applicable in programming too“Fronting” is simply moving an important phrase to the front of a sentence, while maintaining valid grammar.Feb 11Feb 11
How the ego creeps into a technical discussionDespite full agreement on superficial/immediate technical facts/factors, each engineer may subjectively assign a different…Oct 12, 2024Oct 12, 2024
Original thought is incompatible with subject-based standardised testing (under time pressure)Original thought, i.e. independently solving an unfamiliar problem, is like graph search in an unfamiliar “problem state space” (see video…Jan 18, 2024Jan 18, 2024
AGI, triangle of meaning, Plato’s Caveoriginal written at https://twitter.com/jacob_tan_en/status/1639636441171992579Mar 25, 2023Mar 25, 2023
VS Code bracket pair colorsVS Code has a fast native implementation of bracket pair colorizationJul 29, 2022Jul 29, 2022
export ban and price ceiling hurts businessMalaysian chicken industry players say export ban will hurt business; urge government to review price ceilingMay 27, 2022May 27, 2022
Social media value propositions of Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, TikTokTwitter (1) forced concision (2) public audience & assymetric (non-mutual follow) by default (2→3) follow people smarter than you in…Feb 18, 2021Feb 18, 2021
Accepting the state of being stuckHow a world-class mathematician solves problems.Jan 27, 2021Jan 27, 2021
Haskell: derive (>>=) via fmap and join(Demonstrating mathematical thinking. And why some basic abstract maths knowledge is a pre-requisite to properly understanding Haskell…Jan 25, 2021Jan 25, 2021
Best practice: single source of truth (SSOT), vs DRY (don’t repeat yourself)“Single source of truth” is more meaningful than the overly simplistic “DRY”.Jan 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021
Deduction, induction, abduction: examples in code (programming)Inspired by https://twitter.com/mengwong/status/1297416858497294336Jan 22, 2021Jan 22, 2021
Fun experiment about ownership biasTL;DR: I made it = I think it is a better product (than if I did not make it).Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Problem solving: generic adviceContext: programming problems on Advent of Code https://adventofcode.com/Jan 5, 2021Jan 5, 2021
