Use journals. Why have a journal? See: https://medium.com/@jessewright-31185/advance-in-work-and-life-using-a-journal-5052afe59c64 Have a personal journal and a work or school journal. You should store as much as possible electronically. I recommend folders of year and month. Use search for keywords. Make keywords with a # character (most programs use this convention). One concept…

Why it is so hard for them to change. Three of my hero’s are: Galileo Galilei, 1564 to 1642 Isaac Newton, 1642 to 1726 or 1727 Charles Darwin, 1809 to 1882 I think about these people and how they came up with their ideas. They took facts that were: Taught…

Not going to replace programmers anytime soon. — I have been investigating the code generation process by ChatGPT by running experiments. Summary In the current implementation it is useful for simple problems. ChatGPT can also find published libraries (GEMs for example) or utility programs easier than using other mechanisms. The major limitations are that the code is not production…

People ignore packing and alignment rules. People forget programmer productivity. It is common to state that typed languages are better than untyped languages. A standard extension to untyped languages is to add types to create a new language. I will discuss the false assumption of the superiority of typed languages. …

Some idea’s that can help. — Twitter has bled off 50%-75% of employees. Amazon has laid off thousands. Many other companies are downsizing. Even with that there are more programming jobs than people. Especially for people with more than five years experience. This is just going to be a blip not a long term trend. First…

My last word on Holy Books. I am a garbage reader. I read anything with words in a row. When I was young I focused on Science Fiction. In my later years Fantasy. Science and History were always part of my reading material. Let me state for the record. You…

Long term programmer analysis and recommendation. I would recommend Ruby as the prime programming language and C for interaction with hardware. That is what I used for decades and still use at home (retired). My current choice of Ruby for everything but Python for Scientific or AI programming. Many of…