Teochew Thunder

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

John Woods

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Martin Fowler

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Larry Wall

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Brook's Law

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The Ecology of the Modulus
"Beyond the obvious function of giving you the remainder when a is divided by b, The Modulus helps you determine if a given number is odd or even."

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To the Strong and the Bold
"Of course, one could argue that we could just solve this thing with CSS (and you'd be quite right), but CSS is not the subject matter here."

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A collection of technical snippets and ruminations on the web industry and tech in general. Much of it is opinion-based, and as such, I fully expect people to disagree.

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