https://danverbraganza.com/writings Mostly articles about programming in Python and Go, with occasional detours into the whimsical. en https://danverbraganza.com/writings/quiet-in-the-zoo A reminder (to myself, mostly) on the importance of stepping away from the agents to make time for reflection 16 May 26 19:11 NZST https://danverbraganza.com/writings/detach-well-to-attach-longer How simple geometry and physics might be undermining the effectiveness of your sticky notes 11 Jan 26 22:33 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/christmas-songs-that-do-too-much Twelve Christmas songs that always steal the limelight 22 Dec 25 09:25 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/reinterpreting-zawinskis-law Social connection is one of the main drivers of software feature expansion 11 Oct 25 12:42 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/most-frequent-jj-commands A cheat-sheet of jj commands you're most likely to need day-to-day using jj as a git replacement. 21 Jun 25 08:56 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/credit-card-discounts-searchable How I gather my credit card offers in one place so I don't miss out 30 Mar 25 16:09 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/pyside6-qt-web-engine-widget-with-briefcase If you've run into this error, this is how you can fix it 05 Mar 25 00:29 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/an-easier-way-to-replace-a-duvet-cover This way of putting a cover onto a duvet might save you effort and time! 30 Mar 24 10:41 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/my-theme-song-8-bit-version I composed an 8-bit version of my own theme song and put it on the Internet 23 Mar 23 17:30 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/improving-my-toothbrush How I leveraged Go, GPT-4 and DALL-E to improve a simple toothbrush timer Alexa Skill 19 Mar 23 23:03 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/death-is-truth--why-post-mortems-work How to successfully perform the Rite of AshkEnte 16 Dec 22 00:41 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/3d-printing-a-flipper-wifi-devboard-case Step-by-step instructions I used to build and assemble a case for my Flipper accessory 26 Jun 22 22:28 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/de-morgans-flaw-perform-this-refactor-carefully A pattern that I've noticed often causes bugs 29 Mar 21 21:23 -0700 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/estimates-design-and-the-payoff-line How inaccuracies in estimation lead to a systematic undervaluing of the importance of Design 31 Jan 21 21:15 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/software-names-to-avoid An incomplete list of poor names for libraries, modules, projects and teams 24 Jan 21 14:43 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/distributed-circuit-breakers-at-hipmunk How we implemented Circuit Breakers at Hipmunk to automatically deal with third party outages. 17 Jan 21 23:00 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/misapplying-lazy-recursive-defaultdict A cautionary tale of how I misapplied the wrong software tool to a problem, and what I've learned from it. 10 Jan 21 18:19 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/the-sorting-hat-and-hash-functions Why Harry Potter's Sorting Hat would make a poor choice for a hash function 06 Dec 20 15:15 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/the-phoenix-project A summary and a review of the Phoenix Project 29 Nov 20 21:15 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/from-maybe-to-ensure A digression on naming functions, and ensuring they only do one thing 15 Nov 20 18:16 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/highlight-output-with-grep A one-line shell function to visually emphasize search terms in the terminal output of a program 15 Nov 20 16:01 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/zero-based-ordinals This is the televenth post of my blog. 20 Sep 20 21:30 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/always-spell-your-range-checks-like-this By always spelling your range conditionals start <= index < capacity, you make your code more easily grokkable and reduce the chance of errors. 20 Sep 20 16:28 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/the-empty-case-is-not-special Instead of explicitly handling the empty case in functions, try this instead. 07 Sep 20 22:51 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/reading-list-left-of-bang A review of the book Left of Bang 05 Sep 20 21:15 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/connect-four-in-3-lines-of-python A tiny implementation of Connect 4 on the terminal, with explanation. 22 May 17 20:26 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/why-are-go-interfaces-strict A closer look at some surprising interface mechanics in Go 11 Jul 16 15:17 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/hangman-in-3-lines-of-python Just because you can, doesn't mean you shrdlu. 06 Feb 16 16:20 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/python2-super-arguments-mnemonic A handy mnemonic that eliminates the guesswork from picking the order of arguments for super() 13 Jan 16 19:03 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/knowing-when-to-finish Announcing the completion of varcaser, and discussing prioritization. 07 Nov 15 19:30 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/keysort-schwartzian-transform-go This article talks about a problem I encountered while sorting complex types in Go, and the solution I came up with, keysort. 14 Aug 15 19:08 -0800 https://danverbraganza.com/writings/first This is the first ever post to this blog. 18 Feb 15 02:58 -0800