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Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project. -
Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad - Luke Plant
Why? Because it’s fun. -
Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding - Luke Plant
TLDR: because I want them to become seniors one day, and I want them to enjoy being developers -
Knowledge creates technical debt - Luke Plant
Some history on term “technical debt” and on better language to use when communicating about it. -
Recursive project search in Emacs - Luke Plant
The workflow of recursively searching for things or dealing with a list of issues to fix without getting lost. -
Keeping things in sync: derive vs test - Luke Plant
There are times when we need to stop trying to make everything sync automatically, and just test that it is synced. Tips for Python and web dev. -
Never, Sometimes, Always - Luke Plant
Just like the only numbers programmers care about are zero, one, infinity, the only frequencies we care about are Never, Sometimes and Always. -
pyastgrep and custom linting - Luke Plant
Methodology and sample code for using pyastgrep to do custom linting tasks on Python source code. -
Programming mantras are proverbs - Luke Plant
Proverbs are supposed to encapsulate a bit of wisdom, but you still need know when to apply it. -
No one actually wants simplicity - Luke Plant
We think we do, but in fact every web developer will happily sacrifice simplicity to the first shiny thing promising them relief from the mildest of ailments.