We see with our brains. Then we check with our eyes. Our retina takes in light, varying by brightness and color. It transmits information along the optical nerve to the primary visual cortex. There, specialized cells activate on outlines and contours in various orientations (horizontal, vertical, oblique). This part of the brain separates objects from …
The most mentally straining part of programming (for me) is focusing down on the detail of a line of code while maintaining perspective on why we are doing this at all. When a particular implementation gets hard, should I keep going? back up a step and redesign? or back way up and solve the problem …
Today, another tweet about “how can I write the cleanest, best architected code?” gets piles of book references in response. Yes, we want to be good at writing code. We want to write the best code. The best code for what? “Writing code” is an abstraction, like a transitive verb without an object. I can’t …