There’s no coding Oscars. Write software that works (Ep. 413)
The home team welcomes its newest member, Stack Overflow’s brand-new technical advocate, Matt Kiernander! They chat about what tools are top-of-mind when they get work done and the best font for VS Code when you’re live-streaming your programming.
Episode notes:
Ceora has her second brain stored in Notion, complete with GIFs and pretty color to get that aesthetic.
Ancient history in blog years: Cassidy talks about the perils of being bleeding-edge instead of cutting-edge: Apollo Mission: The pros and cons of being an early adopter of new technology
Everybody is aboard the VS Code train, which has the hottest TikTok around. Cassidy recommends the MonoLisa font for helping viewers read your code during a livestream.
Today’s lifeboat goes to Bill the Lizard for Using IFF in Python.
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There are no coding Oscars.
Write English grammar that works. 🙂
Did you intend to write “Write English grammar. That works” ?
remember the name that prof. knuth chose for his multi-volume work on programming “the art of computer programming”.
i think the idea is that messy looking code is a pain to maintain.
As someone who’s name is Oscar and codes for a living, I find it offensive 😛
It may amuse you to find out that there are Oscars given for code. In addition to the widely broadcast main Oscars ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences also has a second (not broadcast) event every year where they give Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements that have a lasting impact on how movies are made, and most of them these days are for software (but also hardware and things like new important new camera or projection technologies). There are multiple levels of award, depending on how foundational the invention is, and the highest level even receives the gold Oscar statuette. https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech