26 April 2004

26Apr2004

You Can't Go Home

By carlfish on

This time around, it didn't feel like home. It felt like this place I happened to know my way around. Maybe this is natural: four years is enough time to lay down roots in a new home, be planted somewhere else. Or maybe it's just that I live so much of my life within myself already that I'm not so easily attached. "I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me."

26Apr2004

Where Bugs Come From

By carlfish on

If we can write 137 lines of code without a bug, then we can structure our programming style so that we're always writing units of fewer than 137 lines. We can build those units into components, and voila! No more bugs.