Welcome back to this fourth and final installment of the series. The first three parts should have been enough to get you off the ground, but a few more learning examples wouldn’t hurt. It’s also a ...

Peter looks at how rewriting some complex code -- purely to make it easier to read -- eliminates the need for writing comments. He even adds a comment to some code. In a previous column, I discussed ...

There are many similarities when comparing the writing of code to the writing of prose. Because of this, we should be able to learn from doing each of these and apply things learned from one to the ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...