andyvanee

Much has been said in the last few years about the death of software development jobs due to AI. While I don’t totally disagree, I think the current blip is the result of shortsighted managment rather than the capabilities of the AI. ...

“DON’T PANIC” - are the words printed in bold letters across the cover of The Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. I don’t think there could be any better motto for our time. ...

I’ve recently been working on a project that uses WebSockets as a core mechanic. These are my thoughts… For starters, an event-driven architecture all the way from Server to UI brings some interesting features. Most notably, it allows you to think about the app as a single one-way rendering flow. ...

Deconstruct 2017 is over, and I’m still processing a lot of what I heard, but I did want to get a few notes down while the ideas are fresh. ...

I had an idea as I was driving today. It seems so obvious that I’m sure it has some fundamental flaw. Either that, or someone is already working on it. I’m writing this only in the hopes that a Chemist or Biologist can explain to me how I’m wrong and why I’m wrong. ...

I’ve really been enjoying working my way through the code challenges at http://adventofcode.com/. My solutions are here: https://github.com/andyvanee/adventofcode I’m now on day 8, and the examples have ranged from very easy to pretty involved, but none have been devilishly complicated or tricky. ...

I’d like to document a problem that I’ve never had before, and the solution I arrived at. It was not a real complicated problem, but I got hung up on an even simpler problem. ...

This may come across as a rant, but I’m hoping I can keep this as objective as possible: I don’t like frameworks. I’m going to use a broad definition of frameworks defined like this: ...

Fonts and external scripts can be a real performance killer for modern websites. This is the white-screen of death for front-end web development. Anytime a page is blocked for 0.5 or more seconds due to scripts and hosts outside of your control is a serious problem in my opinion. The best solution is to completely sandbox your external scripts like social media widgets. Fonts could use similar treatment. ...

Here’s an article I read a couple days ago about the founder of Udacity and his struggle with very low success rates for online courses. http://www.fastcompany.com/3021473/udacity-sebastian-thrun-uphill-climb To compensate for a high dropout rate, Udacity has made a shift to focusing on corporate training. Company sponsored courses on the practical tools and frameworks that are used today. These courses are generally taught by corporate “Technology Evangelists”, or some such title. ...