Bob MyersThe Puddle of Shit Under My House, Codebases, and Mental HealthA parable about our codebases·3 min read·Apr 20, 2024----
Bob MyersLightning Web Components are here!Lightning Web Components (LWC) is Salesforce’s implementation of everyone’s favorite cool new web technology, namely web components…·11 min read·May 7, 2020----
Bob MyersWhither Literate Programming (3) — Desiderata for a New EraIn the first article of this series, we reviewed the history of literate programming. In the second article, we mused about how and why…·6 min read·Feb 26, 2020----
Bob MyersThe Only Japanese Egg Salad Sandwich (“Tamago Sando”) Recipe You Will Ever NeedThe Japanese egg salad sandwich has taken America by storm. Konbi, the little storefront near Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, was named the…·10 min read·Jan 24, 2020--1--1
Bob MyersThe 2019 Most Idiotic Tech Job Ads AwardsAn embarassment of riches in tech job ad stupidity·9 min read·Feb 21, 2019--1--1
Bob MyersThe Tyranny of the Timed Coding InterviewIn the infamous “whiteboard” coding test, developers hoping to be hired are expected to write code in real-time, standing up in front of a…13 min read·Dec 29, 2018--9--9
Bob MyersCSS Anti-patternsCSS, like any widely-used technology — and it is widely used because there is basically no way to make web pages without it — has developed…·9 min read·Sep 14, 2018--2--2
Bob MyersIs CSS a Good Thing™?The latest cycle of overheated rhetoric and misinformation about CSS includes accusations that CSS and its practitioners are being…·16 min read·Sep 13, 2018----
Bob MyersWhither Literate Programming (2) — What went wrong?What is literate programming? How has literate programming evolved? Why hasn’t literate programming taken off? Where is it headed?·11 min read·Sep 3, 2018--3--3
Bob MyersWhither Literate Programming (1)It’s been more than three decades since literate programming was invented by the legendary Donald Knuth. Its promise was immense — creating…·6 min read·Aug 31, 2018----