miku86

Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

Stuff I wish I'd known sooner about service workers

I recently had several days of extremely frustrating experiences with service workers. Here are a few things I've since learned which would have made my life much easier but which isn't particularly obvious from most of the blog posts and videos I've seen.

I'll add to this list over time – suggested additions welcome in the comments or via twitter.com/rich_harris.

Use Canary for development instead of Chrome stable

~~Chrome 51 has some pretty wild behaviour related to console.log in service workers. Canary doesn't, and it has a load of really good service worker related stuff in devtools.~~

ItemOffsetDecoration

public class ItemOffsetDecoration extends RecyclerView.ItemDecoration {

    private int mItemOffset;

    public ItemOffsetDecoration(int itemOffset) {
        mItemOffset = itemOffset;
    }

% The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem % Nathaniel Branden % _

Introduction

Let us identify the most important factors on which self-esteem depends.

If self-esteem is the health of the mind, then few subjects are of comparable urgency

Branching

Quick Legend

Description, Instructions, Notes

Instance	Branch

	import hashlib as hasher
	import datetime as date

	# Define what a Snakecoin block is
	class Block:
	def __init__(self, index, timestamp, data, previous_hash):
	self.index = index
	self.timestamp = timestamp
	self.data = data
	self.previous_hash = previous_hash