27 April 2004

27Apr2004

You Can't Go Home

This time around, it didn't feel like home. It felt like this place I happened to know my way around. Maybe this is natural: four years is enough time to lay down roots in a new home, be planted somewhere else. Or maybe it's just that I live so much of my life within myself already that I'm not so easily attached. "I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me." →

27Apr2004

Where Bugs Come From

If we can write 137 lines of code without a bug, then we can structure our programming style so that we're always writing units of fewer than 137 lines. We can build those units into components, and voila! No more bugs. →