This week’s things are a little late because of thing one.

As you may know, I’m a, shall we say, older programmer, and as such I’ve developed very strong, quasi-rational opinions over details like indentation and parenthesis. I even wrote a Ruby Style Guide once. (I think I even still believe nearly all of it). And while, I’m traditionally a live-and-let...

Okay, I really am doing this for a second week in a row, even though it’s a bit late.

Looking at it very abstractly, the time a software team spends on a project goes into one of three buckets.

Let’s try something new this week. At least new for me. If, by new, you mean, “haven’t done it in few years”.

I’ve seen kind of an uptick of comments recently about how tools such as Haml, Sass, CoffeeScript, and ActiveRecord are supposed to be abstractions but are nothing but a big stack of lies, lies lies!

This week’s Medium post is In Defense of Pretty Lies. It’s about all our favorite pretty, lying tools, like Haml, or ActiveRecord, and why I love them anyway.

There’s been some discussion this week about the TSA’s airport security randomizer app, which you probably remember as being that thing being held by a bored TSA agent that would point an arrow left or right to tell you which security line to go to.

I really did want to get this done sooner, but I didn’t.