Writing Custom Software: In Defense of Inefficiency
I recently bought a fancy ergonomic keyboard. It has a bunch of fiddly ways to customize it, including altering the behavior of any of its Read More
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A Code Smell Heuristic: Polluted by the Precipitant
Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction — Sandi Metz Over the last few years, I’ve found myself leaning on what I think of Read More
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Chesterton’s Fence and Writing Code Comments
I recently came across the idea of Chesterton’s fence and noticed that it was relevant to a project I’d worked on. The Urge to Rewrite Read More
Learn to Code: Make It Simple, Personal & Communal
Before we dive into learning how to code, we have to learn how we learn. Only then, once we understand what type of learning coding Read More
Meeting… Aiyana Brooks, Software Engineer at The New York Times
“Meeting…” is an ongoing series from NYT Open that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. Illustration by Claire Merchlinsky What are Read More
Threading at the Speed of Light
The New York Times’s Android App Platforms team migrated from RxJava to Kotlin Coroutines and Flow. Here’s what we learned. Illustration by David Huang This is part Read More
How We Manage New York Times Readers’ Data Privacy
Illustration by Tim Peacock We built a system that allows a single team to implement data privacy changes across a suite of over 70 products. By Read More
Over 150 Million Photos, Some Perl Scripts and a Creaky User Interface
Illustration by Ben Giles How we rebuilt a 20-year-old system that lets New York Times photo editors search through our vast store of photo outtakes. By Read More
We Don’t Get Bitter, We Get Better
How we brought site reliability engineering standards and thinking to The New York Times technology teams. Illustration by Jake Terrell By Tim Burke When The New York Read More