Still struggling with the benefits of the Reader monad… In the well-liked answer on StackOverflow, mergeconflict says

I can explain how Reader works easily: it’s a function, and it takes an argument.

OK, so I think the structure of the technique seems clear: instead of being dependent on …

Redshirts by John Scalzi

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What starts as a piss-take on "Star Trek"s disposable away-team characters gets, first, properly twisted (the characters put the pieces together) and then goes meta, or recursive, or something. Funny and breezily written, with some appropriately sentimental genre stuff …

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

A slog through 1000 pages of genealogies and minor characters failing in their plots. Isn't THE WHOLE DAMN POINT that all this bickering about the Iron Throne is pointless while the true threats are creeping …

One of the major quos one gets pro being on a 2-year contract quid is that it’s not disloyal, 6-months out, to publicly seek a new opportunity.

Supposedly, the software development community has weathered the Great Recession well and has come roaring back. To believe my Twitter feed, everyone …

Ah.

It turns out that it’s a terrible mistake to leave the “Autoimport” feature of Photostream on in iPhoto or Aperture when you go on vacation. If you leave it on, and you do the logical thing of moving your daily photographs into your laptop, when you merge the …

I have this very mundane need: an application to fill the SD card that goes into a digital picture frame. You know, don't show photos that were on it last time, show all the photos that are new since last time, show higher-rated photos more than lower-rated ones, etc.

I …

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A good page-turner, but ironically for a book that is about the fate of gods, the stakes felt extremely low. Gaiman very quickly establishes a porous boundary between life and death for mortals and then, later, establishes the same …

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Part 1: Forbes is wrong about "Developernomics"

Part 2: Why 10x Ticks Me Off

If this subject’s of interest to you, you might enjoy (or despise) the column on the subject I’ve been writing for SD Times for the past decade.

In order to understand my position on …

The passing of pioneers - SD Times: Software Development News.

SD Times has published some brief memories of some of those the industry lost this year.