development - Anthony Robertson

development

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The Best! Open-Source Development Environment for Raspberry Pi Projects

The Best! Open-Source Development Environment for Raspberry Pi Projects

When getting started doing projects on small devices like Raspberry Pi's (and smaller), it can be hard to establish a comfortable workflow during development. I mean comfortable literally - ergonomically, as a human - as well as being able to utilize familiar, modern development tools. Having to be physically tethered

The Streetlight Effect

The Streetlight Effect

A campfire skit from my childhood has been on my mind recently. It's a simple one and you may have seen or read a version of it yourself: A person is searching for something under a streetlight. A pedestrian approaches and asks, "What are you doing?" "Looking for my keys,

StackOverflow's 2018 Survey

StackOverflow's 2018 Survey

Being such an important hub for developers, StackOverflow conducts an annual survey to identify trends in technologies, jobs and behaviors. They just recently announced the 2018 survey results, and there were a few findings that raised my eyebrows. Are Developers Full of $hit? Right out of the gate, some things

Put That Mess in a Container

Put That Mess in a Container

Virtual machines are awesome, there is no debate about that. They have also become a lot easier to use - a fact that their increasing populariry reinforces. In this post I'll argue that the tools of virtualization have become so accessible to developers that they provide entirely new, more organized