Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-12-30:	Why you need `select()` even with communication channels
2010-12-26:	A lesson for myself: write tests. Really.
2010-12-25:	Garbage-collected languages and memory allocation failures
2010-12-21:	Why I want tests to be easy to write
2010-12-20:	I don't understand how to test complex data structures
2010-12-09:	A small request for C programmers: no static locals
2010-12-06:	What performance anomalies mean
2010-11-21:	Why I think some coding tricks are especially damaging
2010-11-16:	When good ideas go bad: how not to do a file chooser dialog
2010-11-15:	The language dilemma for production software
2010-10-27:	An extra problem with not documenting things in open source modules
2010-10-24:	Why I'm interested in Go
2010-10-23:	My issues with Go's net package
2010-10-03:	An API mistake Unix has made several times
2010-09-30:	A lot of my bugs are conceptual oversights
2010-09-19:	Your on the fly control system should not use toggles
2010-09-10:	Go's network package and IPv6 (and my ideal version thereof)
2010-09-04:	The laziness of a programmer, illustrated
2010-08-29:	A Bourne shell irritation: no wildcard matching operator
2010-08-18:	Please, no automatic scrolling to the next item
2010-08-12:	Many programs should provide an easy way to change font size
2010-08-11:	You should have a way to purge history
2010-08-08:	The joy of debugging other people's programs
2010-07-20:	The sysadmin view of messages from programs
2010-07-11:	When is using SQL the right answer?
2010-07-07:	A gotcha with the Bourne shell's `set -e` and `&&`
2010-06-29:	There is such a thing as too much SQL (a reminder to myself)
2010-06-19:	Don't make your 'I am processing' animation too complex
2010-06-08:	Focusing on what you actually need in a program
2010-05-22:	Why I'm wrong about what sort of APIs C's stdargs allows
2010-05-21:	An example of an API that you can't do with C stdargs
2010-05-20:	The limitations of C's varargs support
2010-04-30:	Never kill the screen locker
2010-04-21:	The advantage of garbage collection for APIs
2010-04-16:	How to write to stderr so people will like you
2010-04-09:	The processing flow of a network copying program
2010-03-27:	Testing in the face of `popen()`
2010-03-19:	The problem with general purpose languages as configuration languages
2010-03-09:	How not to design an API (in C): the `enum` ordering mistake
2010-02-24:	How to listen on a socket in the modern IPv6-enabled world
2010-02-17:	The purpose of configuration files
2010-02-09:	Why your program should have an actual configuration file
2010-01-28:	Always sign exactly what you are authenticating
2010-01-04:	Turning synchronous channels asynchronous
2010-01-03:	Go interfaces are not my sort of interfaces

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