Blog Articles

I write about software engineering, academia, game development, and usability. (RSS feed)

• Progress bars still lie: Please fix them (11/23/2020)
• List of human-centered software engineering dissertations (11/22/2020)
• Parsing RISC-V assembly (10/26/2020)
• Useful functions for game development (9/21/2020)
• Implementing cosine in C from scratch (7/19/2020)
• Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 3 (7/5/2020)
• Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 2 (6/5/2020)
• Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler, part 1 (5/5/2020)
• Books I recommend to my software engineering students (2/29/2020)
• Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this? (1/27/2020)
• What's wrong with computational notebooks? (1/19/2020)
• Going viral on Reddit and Hacker News (12/28/2019)
• Challenging projects every programmer should try (12/11/2019)
• Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Facilitator (10/27/2019)
• Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Catch All (10/7/2019)
• Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: Object Dictionaries (9/30/2019)
• Is optional null better? (9/4/2019)
• The 8 lessons I learned from releasing 8 video games (7/17/2019)
• Quick start guide to research on human factors of software engineering (7/7/2019)
• Type inference has usability problems (6/27/2019)
• What I got from 5 internships during grad school (9/9/2018)
• Faculty interview questions I asked and got asked (5/14/2018)
• My favorite Wikipedia articles about science (11/11/2016)