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The past few years, people have heard me say, "I don't like frameworks", and they tend to jump to the conclusion that I'm the type of person who wants to write everything myself, which is far from true - I'll take a great framework for object/relational...

I have seen a lot of articles and discussions about "culture" in tech workplaces this past year, but I have been lacking a really good definition of what precisely is meant by "culture".
Today I realized what exactly it means to me: Principles.
There's been a lot of talk about "culture" in terms of things like structure, consistency and routines - values that are all nice, if you can really pin them down. But it occurs to me that, in some workplaces, the business model itself can actually be...

I have been tinkering with TypeScript for a few months now, and wanted to briefly share something useful I just learned.
You may be familiar with the Math.floor('123') integer type-cast, which is useful for high-performance applications because it's generally much faster than e.g. parseInt('123'), and does essentially the same thing....

I just re-read this post by Phil Sturgeon, and it spurred some random thoughts. Without much editing, I'm just going to put these thoughts in writing and post them.
As Phil touched on, part of the reason PHP doesn't move along in some of the bigger and more complicated areas, is missing incentive - all of the work on PHP is being done by volunteers and contributors, and their work frequently gets voted out and thrown...