Category Archives: Programming

Material related to computer programming.

Inserting 130M SQLite Rows per Minute

Posted on 2021-07-25 [Sunday] by Jay Jay

Some notes on performance tuning SQLite: Inserting 130M SQLite Rows per Minute.

Bash locals

Posted on 2021-07-24 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

Today I learned about options for the ‘local‘ keyword in bash scripts, include ‘-r’ for ‘readonly’.

Software crisis

Posted on 2021-07-08 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

There’s a good article about the software crisis over on Wikipedia.

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

Posted on 2021-07-07 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

Today via Lobsters: Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. I think I like programmingisterrible.com.

You Are Gonna Need It

Posted on 2021-07-03 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

Over on YAGNI exceptions some ideas about what you probably are gonna need…

The Fetch standard

Posted on 2021-07-01 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

The Fetch standard defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching.

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

Posted on 2021-07-01 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

Today via HN: Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design.

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

Posted on 2021-06-30 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

Today I stumbled upon Microsoft REST API Guidelines.

Software Architecture Books

Posted on 2021-06-26 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

Today via r/programming: Awesome Software Architecture Books. I am particularly interested in System Architecture, Design Patterns, and Data Engineering.

CSS spacing

Posted on 2021-06-22 [Tuesday] by Jay Jay

This via r/programming today: CSS: The Spacing Between Elements Should Be Determined by the Parent Element.