In 2009 I started the Alan Turing petition. Perhaps you read about in WIRED back in 2014. This is my first-hand account of how I started the petition, automated my father with Perl scripts, convinced the UK to apologise to Alan Turing, and received a personal phone call from the British Prime Minister.
Unpopular opinion! Monoliths are the future because the problem people are trying to solve with microservices doesn’t really line up with reality. Just to be honest - and I’ve done this before, gone from microservices to monoliths and back again. Both directions.
Results are in for the 2019 State of JS survey. I’ve been digging through charts to see what I can see. Here are 7 insights that jumped off the page to me.
Gone are the days when we developers were too shy/humble/introverted to promote our warez with the confidence and vigor necessary to draw a crowd.
In fact, we may be experiencing an over-correction. Some of us are selling a bit too hard at times. With that in mind, here’s some help translating between how developers describe our software and what we might actually be thinking. 😉
Did you miss GitHub Universe this year? We did too, but we have an insider giving us all the details to share with you so you can stay productive, but not miss out. This is a summary of what was announced at GitHub Universe 2019.
Shanku Niyogi shared a full-length write up on the GitHub Blog with more details and links.
As the saying goes… history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
If you want to create a successful programming language (or at least understand how you might), it’s immensely valuable to learn from others who have done just that. on Go Time episode #100, two of Go’s creators (Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer) sat down to discuss the language’s success. Here’s 5 things they attribute to its success.
I’m excited to announce our newest podcast — Brain Science!
Brain Science is a podcast for the curious. Are you curious?! We’re exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
The Changelog team will have a BIG presence at All Things Open in October. To celebrate, we’re giving away FREE tickets!
Many people and companies have poorly interpreted Grace Hopper’s famous quote about getting things done inside bureaucracies. I’m here to set the record straight.
A generative engineering culture is one where nothing seems to fall through the cracks, “we should” gets prioritized and becomes reality, and original ideas and value come primarily from engineers, rather than management. A culture like this is an engine for building capacity, quality, innovation, and sophistication.
Here’s some hard-earned experience on how you validate an email address. If you listened to JS Party #39, then you already know this. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Having spent the better part of the last decade as a work-from-home developer, I have discovered or adopted a few LIFE HACKS which I am going to share with you now.
JS Party 73 finished with an excellent segment all about recommended reading for new and aspiring JavaScript developers. Here’s the rundown!
If there’s one thing successful community projects have in common, it’s that they all provide something valuable to the developers who use them.
Has your organization considered building a community project that’s meaningful for developers? Here are five of the most common types of developer community projects and how they create value for the community.
When you hard-attach your library to a specific technology or framework, you limit its potential impact. By thinking ahead and putting in a little more effort, your library could benefit orders of magnitudes more people.
