2 pages tagged with "coding"

The Case for Elm

July 01, 2024 - 1687 words - 9 mins
One of the most significant drawbacks of using the HTML/CSS/JS stack for application development is the default “fail silently at runtime” error behaviour. This was fine in the DHTML days when we were just adding decorative or cosmetic functionality to a static page, but I think it makes less sense … read more

Is readability always better?

September 30, 2022 - 421 words - 3 mins
At the recent YOW Perth conference, Andy Marks & Pam Rucinque of Thoughtworks presented a thought-provoking talk on "Reviving the art of software design". As part of the talk they had a selection of different-but-functionally-identical implementations of a pangram-checking function, and attendee… read more