Matthias Lüdtke's better-idea.org

: PyData Berlin 2025 Notes I just came back from the PyData conference in Berlin and apart from meeting a lot of great people, …

: patience Sometimes, with flaky tests, you just have to have some patience. I have written this helper script …

: Unicode Symbol as Text or Emoji Unicode symbol as text or emoji Append codepoints.net/U+FE0E to make a Unicode symbol render as …

: When tech is fully adopted, it disappears When tech is fully adopted, it disappears. – Mobile Is Eating the World

: Alfred: UIColor from Hex Being tired of manually creating UIColor instances from hexadecimal representations (and not always …

: Incremental Development — No Silver Bullet Incremental development — grow, don’t build, software. I still remember the jolt I felt in …

: Marco Arment on 'interesting' features Geeks like us are always tempted to implement very complex, never-ending features because they’re …

: Fowler on Craftmanship The software shouldn’t be at the center of a programmer’s world, instead a programmer …

: Fowler on Productivity I assert that any true measure of software development productivity must be based on delivered …

: Fowler and Rebecca Parsons on DSLs http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/228200852 Good overview, Q&A style. Remember to …

: Advanced Regular Expressions http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/06/introduction-to-advanced-regular-expressions/ I always …