Architecture

We just had an issue at work. A system that had been working fine suddenly started losing data. This had never been an issue before, and it seemed to happen at random which made it pretty hard to debug and reproduce. The system consisted of a JavaScr...

Oh yes, Unix The Unix philosophy focuses on minimalist, modular software. A beautiful example of this is the yes command, which repeatedly prints the character 'y'. This sounds really simple, but Matthias Endler wrote a little story about the yes Uni...

Asynchronous stack traces: why await beats .then() First up, Mathias Bynens has an interesting look into how JavaScript stack traces are generated, and why await beats .then() when it comes to debugging. Writing speaking code & ineffective coding hab...

Another month is coming to an end, and again that means I'll try to summarize some of the most interesting articles I've read. Because of holidays, it's been a pretty short month for me work-wise. That also means that this month's list is pretty shor...