Small Programming Tricks
In one sense, this is self-evident: anything you know is going to be made up of smaller pieces of knowledge. Of course those smaller pieces of knowledge matter. But I think there are some nuggets of knowledge that are particularly valuable and don’t require a lot of supporting mental infrastructure.
- ▪In one sense, this is self-evident: anything you know is going to be made up of smaller pieces of knowledge.
- ▪Of course those smaller pieces of knowledge matter.
- ▪But I think there are some nuggets of knowledge that are particularly valuable and don’t require a lot of supporting mental infrastructure.
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writing all posts about.md rss.xml Small Programming Tricks Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the TCP_NO_DELAY setting and Nagle’s algorithm; knowing the right git incantation to get out of a pickle; or knowing a trick with sed to rewrite a file. In one sense, this is self-evident: anything you know is going to be made up of smaller pieces of knowledge. Of course those smaller pieces of knowledge matter. But I think there are some nuggets of knowledge that are particularly valuable and don’t require a lot of supporting mental infrastructure.
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