2012 Retrospective

A short summary of 2012: more entries than any previous year by far (41 vs. 33 in 2010), and a site design that finally doesn't look so homemade.

And a tremendous increase in traffic.

It's not the numbers of network packets flying around that matter. To you, reading this, this may look like a blog that's ostensibly about building things with technology while more often than not dancing around any kind of actual coding, but in (hopefully) interesting ways. To me, this is an outlet for ideas and for writing. That I'm able to fulfill my own desire to write and there's a large audience that finds it useful...I am stunned that such an arrangement exists.

You have my sincere gratitude for taking the time to read what I've written.

popular articles from 2012

• A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of
• Recovering From a Computer Science Education
• Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology
• A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible
• Solving the Wrong Problem
• This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program
• We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines
• The Pace of Technology is Slower than You Think
• Your Coding Philosophies are Irrelevant
• Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory
• Hopefully More Controversial Programming Opinions
• Do You Really Want to be Doing This When You're 50?
• OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing

others from 2012 that I personally like

• Turning Your Code Inside Out
• The Most Important Decisions are Non-Technical
• You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research
• The Silent Majority of Experts
• All that Stand Between You and a Successful Project are 500 Experiments
• Dangling by a Trivial Feature

(Here's last year's retrospective.)

permalink January 6, 2013

previously

• Documenting the Undocumentable
• Dangling by a Trivial Feature
• The UNIX Philosophy and a Fear of Pixels
• "Not Invented Here" Versus Developer Sanity
• An Outrageous Port

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