Posts tagged with Computing
What career advice should I give to my baby boy?
As Paul Graham has infamously noted, for programmers of my generation, there is a significant cohort of guys – and this set is unilaterally male – who were poking around on computers when we were young and impressionable. These were not quite…
Consistent Web Development for the Regular User
Like most software engineers, I wear an unofficial "IT troubleshooter" hat when I visit the folks over the holidays. They have the classic home computing setup: a handful of Windows PCs hooked up to printers, a wireless router…
Romantizing the Trivial
Everybody loves a good Apple rumor. It seems like for the past few years, predicting what kind of hardware and software big companies will show off is a sport in and of itself, and the industry hypes itself to a…
My iPad Limits Consumption
Like three million other people, I went out and got an iPad on launch day. I had bought the original iPad for my fiancé short after its original debut, and I'm surrounded by iPads at work, but this…
Next on the List, vim
Painters have paintbrushes, writers have pens, and coders have…well, text editors. Real life software hackery is less glamorous than what Hollywood would believe, but an experienced developer work a set of familiar tools is still pretty awe-inspiring. The best…
Ergonomics
I'm deathly afraid of carpal tunnel. The computer industry doesn't pay enough attention to this injury or ergonomic issues associated with computer usage. Craning a neck down to read a cramped laptop screen while typing on…
