Articles tagged with Programming

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow. Computers are very good at following logical statements.

Predicting solar eclipses with Python

As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.

Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Here’s a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP):

1. Cloud vendors¹ will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API.
2. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it. Databases, running code, you name it.

We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware:

Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly.