Bugless Avoiding bugs in code is really that simple:
There is no more important skill in software engineering in my opinion. Its all about the code you *dont* have to write.
Mind you 10 Software Development No-Brainers, including:
How can we make more time for quality? – Just do it. The extra time will make itself.
Teletype Everything you wanted to know about Unix TTY (and I bet you’ve never heard of UART before).
Tested From Just enough testing:
The goal here is get working software that you can trust as fast as you can.
Related, Steve Conover:
In tests, tolerate duplication that helps tell a story. Favor literals as expectations. DRY often makes things worse.
Backup CloudPull will back up your Google accounts (email, calendar, docs) to your Mac.
UX Ziptastic is a new service that makes form filling easier by filling in country, state and city from zip code.
QotD Chris McDonough:
bikeshed (n, v): the ability of an otherwise uninvolved crowd to apply stop energy to a crass display of initiative
Growing up using electronics and computers, probably like most my age, I’m shocked that techies don’t know what a UART is, or was this a humour lost on me?
If your into hardware, software interfaces, hackaday is a brilliant starting point.
It’s interesting to see what others pick up on from HN, etc.
It’s an age thing. UART used to be a separate chip on the motherboard, and messing with it would make a difference. Today you can get the same done with bluetooth and when was the last time you used a modem?
Hey, I remember swapping out the UART on my serial card to get decent reliability with a 9600 bps modem! I even remember what it stands for, and what were the series numbers of the bad default ones and the good aftermarket ones. Ah, for the days of good old Fidonet….