Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

It looks like we've settled on a name... What was called Clawdbot, and renamed to Moltbot, is finally called OpenClaw; and it's dang...

Know someone whose code is a bit sloppy or too vibey? This video might be just what they need.

Once, when I was interviewing with the iTunes U team at Apple, I was asked to write a depth-first search, using recursion, in a language of ...

I've heard people use these terms, interchangeably. Since good definitions make for clear ideas I wanted to explicitly define them. Refa...

The heart of the Timer class. I left out a simple tip from my " Tricks I Learned At Apple: Steve Jobs Load Testing " piece abo...

Dave Winer posted a lesson-learned tip about JavaScript. Although Java and JavaScript are unrelated languages, they have many similarities....

In the late 1990s, we used to joke about language holy wars at Apple. Apple had purchased NeXT, in December 1996, for WebObjects and the...

Hacks are simple shortcuts that increase productivity. They can be inelegant, but they solve a problem quickly. Hacks may be brittle, solv...

Here's a random thought on randomness... In a typical state lottery, like California's Powerball, a player chooses five or six...

I've debated whether coding is art . Writing prose has a lot of similarities to writing code. Both activities require a lot of time sp...

This piece is a response to this morning's  Facebook  and scripting.com post, What "coder" means and why it's bad   by Dav...

As our world becomes more complex, things fail in ways we never expected. In the military, we trained for different scenarios so we had docu...

I've been coding in Xcode's Playground using Swift for the past two months. It seemed that my code was touching on an Xcode edge ...

Hiking the Pacific. Earlier this month, Apple announced a new programming language, called Swift. It's designed to be fast, safe, mo...

When I worked at the Apple Online Store we were organized in teams of six. My team consisted of four software engineers, one project manag...

Every so often I write a blog post that immediately receives many thousands of views. Part 1 of this story  fell into that category. Wher...

There are two types of lazy programming, good and bad. Good Lazy Lazily instantiating and populating data structures is a perfect exampl...

One thing that motivates me to write is reading great writing. Whether I'm writing words or writing code, the ability to capture an idea...

The Way to Eden. I'm reading  Ken Segall's thoughts and experiences while working with Steve Jobs. He's had so much interac...

Typical Interview Question: Write a Java method to reverse a string. TechCrunch had a recent piece about the demise of the  technical in...