Accounting For Software Engineers

The difference between accountants and software engineers, when it comes to accounting systems, is about what we primarily care about. Accountants care about meaning: is the quick ratio in good shape? Is income growing at an expected rate? How do we deal with an upcoming expense? Software engineers care about: will we properly move money around so that the balances are correct given certain latency, concurrency, etc.? Do we have the information required to generate the Income Statement? How do we represent a credit memo?

Variable Naming Best Practices in JavaScript

Like any other programming language, JavaScript relies heavily on well-structured and understandable code. One of the fundamental building blocks of clean JavaScript code is effective variable naming.

By adhering to certain best practices, you can significantly enhance the readability and maintainability of your JavaScript projects. Let’s dive into 12 sets of JavaScript variable naming guidelines.

Battery, BIOS, CPU - processor, storage drive, keyboard, RAM - memory, monitor, motherboard, mouse, NIC - network adapter, printer, sound card - audio card, graphics card - video card. Hardware.Info is a .NET Standard 2.0 library and uses WMI on Windows, /dev, /proc, /sys on Linux and sysctl, system_profiler on macOS.

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?

Basic Things

After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties:

• they are irrelevant while the project is small,
• they are a productivity multiplier when the project is large,
• they are much harder to introduce down the line.

On over-engineering; finding the right balance

A big debate among developers is whether to write code for today’s problem or to build a general-purpose solution for future needs. Both approaches have their pros and cons. Specific-purpose code can quickly become messy. But overly general code can add unnecessary complexity. This post, obviously opinionated, argues for a middle ground. That’s the sweet spot, as always.

A Tyrant Guide to Code Quality Gates featuring CSharpier, Husky.NET, and SonarCloud

In this article, I will share how Chat GPT has helped me code more efficiently and effectively, and how it can benefit you too.