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Short or Long Functions? Relax, It Depends

27/05/2025|3 min read|#software development#best practices

Some people want every function under five lines. Others write code like it's a bedtime story. The truth? It's messier and more interesting than that.

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The Lost Art of Commit Messages

10/11/2024|6 min read|#software development#git#best practices

People scribbling "fix bug", "update code", or the ever descriptive "refactor" while pushing changes that could rival a novel in length. It's as if they think we're all mind readers or perhaps they assume their code is so flawless it needs no explanation.

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Looking to the Past, Seeing the Future: Discovering Plan 9

06/01/2024|5 min read|#operating systems#software development

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is this really cool, somewhat under-the-radar operating system that started in the late '80s. Imagine a group of tech wizards at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson (same guy who co-created Unix), brainstorming and then bringing to life a system that's both familiar and wonderfully strange.

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