Devin Humbert

[...] Like many people, upon first being introduced to Clojure’s immutable data structures, my first thought was “Yikes, that can’t be very memory-efficient.” But watching Rich Hickey’ [...]

[...] , I’ve been skipping over a lot of books that are focused on a specific technology (Clojure, data structures, etc.) in favor of those that have a much broader scope — mostly related to software [...]

[...] there is something that Java has that has made me rethink a lot of my opinions on programming: static typing. I love the security of knowing exactly what type a method parameter is going to be. It not [...]

[...] usage is justified in most situations. After watching the talk and looking into persistent data structures more, I made my own very simple implementation of an unbalanced persistent binary tree. [...]

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is a collection of short essays covering various topics within the domain of software development. Edited by  [...]

I read a lot of books that generate todo list items — it’s kind of my thing. My e-book collection is overflowing with self-improvement and progra [...]

[...] — Robert Heinlein Something that I’ve discovered as I’ve progressed in my career as a software developer is how rewarding it is to teach. It not only strengthens your understanding of a [...]

[...] by O’Reilly Media in 2010, is such a book; it bills itself as “The Software Developer’s Career Handbook.” I anticipated disappointment. It’s not exactly fair, [...]

[...] for code that needs to run concurrently. Indeed, immutability is the default for functional programming languages like Clojure, which is why these languages are becoming more popular with the [...]

[...] and why those might be desirable. It’s a bit underwhelming as a sales pitch for functional programming, but the subject matter is definitely important for software developers to explore. There [...]

[...] make your own ideas more clear. Humans in general are a pretty arrogant bunch, but I think software engineers are especially prone to it. Get outside of your own head sometimes; figure out if you’re [...]

[...] . It’s my passion. But I’m also highly aware of the career side of the equation. Software engineers can’t afford to just bury their heads in code and hope that things will work out [...]

[...] on was going to be ported to Java. I was very hesitant about this, as I’m sure most Python developers would be. In general, porting an application to an entirely new language is not a [...]

There’s a great quote that I truly believe captures the importance of teaching others: When one teaches, two learn. — Robert Heinlein Somethin [...]