My Old Master: On Optimism
The “My Old Master” posts are non technical posts in reference to my karate (shaolin kempo) teacher, and the things he taught my friends and I over a decade to be martial artists (peaceful warriors),...
View ArticleA Tool To Debug Teams (Knoster)
In the professional world, programmers work in teams as a rule, with very few exceptions. For the programmers aiming to remain programmers, and not going into management, we are often focused on our...
View ArticleMy Old Master: How to Correct as a Mentor or a Teacher
Preface: I studied martial arts for a little over a decade (shaolin kempo at USSD) and learned a lot while I was there. Our teacher was a great guy who genuinely cared about his students, and in...
View ArticleHow and Why Cleaning Up Code or Processes Gives Multiplicative Benefits
The engineering manager of my team Paul Haban (@XpresoAdct) mentioned to me once in passing that when you fix a problem, you often get multiplicative returns beyond the initial problem you intended to...
View ArticleNo Bad Code, Creeping Normality and Social Structure Code Organization
In the last post I said that another post was coming regarding using bilinear texture sampling for something interesting. Hopefully without sounding too pretentious, that interesting thing I wanted to...
View ArticleSituational Leadership
This is a little bit different than the normal kinds of topics I write about, but I found it pretty interesting so wanted to share with you guys. (Thanks for sharing the idea with me Paul!) This is a...
View Article