A revolutionary approach to university teaching
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We are all familiar with the classical mode of teaching. The instructor and
other attendees look at shared PowerPoint slide and a grid of black
rectangle...
The Learning Loop and LLMs
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*Unmesh Joshi* finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes
illusory if we use them to shortcut the learning loop that's an essenti...
Protecting your business in the age of ransomware
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Ransomware is hitting close to home for organizations of all sizes and
sectors. With attacks making headlines daily, it’s no surprise that 62% of
surveyed ...
The case for strong leadership in agile teams
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The key to scaling a software engineering organization is stable teams. A
while ago I wrote about the need to focus on stable, autonomous teams.
Teams wi...
The redesigned Racket blog
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*posted by Matthew Butterick*
I love Racket. But a few months ago, I really wanted to kill this blog.
Why? Because who reads blogs, right? It’s like get...
10 Things I Learnt about Life from Masterchef
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OK, I confess, I watch Masterchef, the television reality show and cookery
programme. We record them on the Sky box and if I need to mindlessly zone
out,...
Declarative versus Imperative
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I responded to a recent discussion Declarative vs imperative programming on
the Types mailing list, but my post was rejected because of a bad mail
header. ...
New Book Available
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The new book, DSL Engineering is now available. You can get the print
version as well as the PDF via dslbook.org. Have fun with the book and let
me know wh...
Debug Mode is the Only Mode
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There has been a fair amount of discussion recently surrounding some of
Bret Victor’s talks and blog posts. If you haven’t seen these, I recommend
them hi...