Category: column-programmer’s

I’m starting to use org-mode/emacs full-time again for information, task and project management. I like having a portable platform that I can access using the same interface on all of my devices. And it is so easy to automate and write custom hooks into JIRA, confluence, todoist, gcal and other external services. I ran into…

I am a big fan of Alan Kay, smalltalk and the dynabook. These are powerful ideas from the 1970s that showed us what it means to have a computer-literate society. I don’t just mean checking emails, word processing, and media consumption. These are interesting and bring with them efficiencies. However, they do not make use…

It’s been a really good day for me. Though, I’ve been programming since the morning, and all the code has now started to look like mush… I’ve been able to implement features, improve performance, testing and feel good about the code I’ve written. At work, I fixed a critical bug by deleting 2 lines and…

This evening I wanted to make one of my drawing algorithms faster. I’m not sure everyone is interested in performance testing, so for now I’ll keep it brief. If you want to learn more reach out 🙂 I was writing a curve smoothing function using Chaikin’s algorithm. My reference code for the initial implementation Some…