Article Suggestion: “Provide Contextual Information in Log Messages”

Software developer Tom Hombergs recently wrote an article about making log statements more useful by providing context in order to make it easier for a developer who uses your libraries or builds upon your code to find out what the actual cause of an error is. The blog post contains many pertinent examples of both good and bad log output. Seemingly trivial improvements such as making your log output more helpful and explicit can make a huge difference and save a lot of ... Read more

On Writing Unmaintainable Code

Software developer Andrew Yurisich maintains an - ironically - maintainable version of the authoritative guide to unmaintainable code by Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products. This expansive, tongue-in-cheek how-to teaches developers to make themselves indispensable through writing code only they can understand. Aside from the comical value learning by what not to do can be an extremely useful method. By making sure your code follows none of the guidelines put forward in this how-to you'll already have covered many aspects of writing readable, ... Read more

Bret Victor: The Future of Programming

Bret Victor - The Future of Programming from Bret Victor on Vimeo. Read more

Wesley Grubbs – The Importance of Failing Successfully @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018

The Importance of Failing Successfully - Wesley Grubbs - btconfDUS2018 from beyond tellerrand on Vimeo. Read more

RxJS: Observables, Observers, Subjects …

When developing web applications - or in fact any kind of application that involves interaction via a user interface - we inevitably have to deal with asynchronous events, perhaps even streams of such events, e.g.: mouse clicks asynchronous HTTP calls and subsequent display of data push notifications Because events are such an essential part of both the feature set and the user experience of many, if not even most, user-facing applications frameworks such as Angular treat them as first-class citizens and provide developers with ... Read more