DevOps is one of those things that I don't know enough about. For that reason, I try not to avoid it in the hopes that I will understand it. So today, I decided to setup a BitBucket Pipeline for a .NET 5 application. The documentation online seemed ...
Recently, I came across a problem that was easily solved with Observables implemented with the IObservable and IObserver interfaces in .NET. However, the end-user developer was unfamiliar with observables and to introduce a new pattern would break...
In 2000, a software system used to plan radiation treatment inadvertently caused the death of 5 patients through radiation overdose. The cause was found to be poor software design and human error. As software engineers, it is vital to always remember...
I do a lot of teaching. However, sometimes when you become so familiar with something, you can develop blind spots. With the explosion of JavaScript, I've been developing front-ends mainly with frameworks like React and Angular. However, these experi...
TLDR; Function signatures are contracts for callers. Failure can be reduced by implementing contracts at code boundary points. Failure equals death When I first graduated, I was lucky enough to hear James Cameron speak about his hobby building sub...
The W-Combinator Combinators are functional patterns that glue together functions. These patterns promote single responsibility and decoupling. The first time I saw the W-Combinator, it looked pretty useless. However, today when I was writing a funct...
