Random Musings

Here is a list of most recent posts:

• 02 August - Good Documentation

  Tearing apart bad documentation may be cathartic, but there’s good documentation out there too. It deserves recognition. Today, I’m going to pick on SDL. I’m not talking about the quality of the API itself, just its documentation.

• 25 July - Bad Comments

  I first came across ThreadX somewhere around 2021, during its stint as Azure RTOS. I guess Microsoft thinks blue is cool or something. Maybe they really want to emulate another blue-themed company. I don’t know. Anyway, it’s 62304-certified and I was working on a class B medical device at the time. While using it, I found a bunch of things that look like this:

• 17 July - Foreign Accents

  There’s a phenomenon that I’ve been observing, and I think it’s time to share my thoughts. In my experience, when someone goes to visit a place and tries to learn some of the language and speak it, the reaction comes in two flavors: people either (type I) act delighted and try to help with the learning, or (type II) switch to English.

• 02 July - Weird Coding Styles

  I’ve been working in the software industry for 20 years (counting as conservatively as I can) this year, and sometimes people come up with weird styles and enforce them on everyone who touches their codebase. These are a few examples.

• 07 February - Fudge

  Recipe first, commentary later. About an hour total.

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