Originally published on May 23, 2024 in fun code(). The programs I write frequently involve strings that identify things: email addresses, file paths, URLs, time zones... even credit card numbers and drivers’ license numbers. For many years I followed the patterns of the Java standard library when creating my own…
In some of the projects I work on, we publish an artifact for every build on the main branch. We don’t want to give these nice semver names like 1.5.0 because that’s too much work! Instead we just wanna generate a version name based on the…
I pair program a lot and it makes me happy. Here’s some thoughts on pair programming... Tuple is AmazingI’ve tried pairing with Copilot, Screenhero, Drovio, Zoom, macOS Screen Sharing, and Code With Me. Tuple is my favorite of these. Not Just ProgrammingI use pairing software for all kinds…
People do open source for lots of reasons. One reason that I do open source is because I enjoy it... Recently I had fun connecting Okio to zlib. It even had fun side quests: I learned about zlib, info-zip, PKZip, and how they relate. Sometimes a project’s logo tells…
Most of the software I write exists to automate a process. It might automate a high-level workflow like peer-to-peer money transfers, or a low-level implementation detail like encoding an HTTP request as bytes. I’ve learned that my code is healthier when it’s strictly divided into value objects, service…
Okio's has an openZip() function that views a .zip file as a FileSystem. To expose file metadata in the file system API, Okio must extract it from the .zip file. There’s at least four ways to encode timestamps in a .zip file. I wanted to find out which of…
I don’t do many crimes. I don’t even do crimes that I could do without getting caught! Every single time my dog poops on the sidewalk, I pick it up. Even if nobody’s watching! I have honor. With that disclaimer out of the way, here’s instructions…
If you’re sending data from one computer to another, it’s probably JSON. But it hasn’t always been this way. How we Transmitted Data Before JSONBefore JSON got popular (2005ish) we had XML, CORBA, Java serialization, Python Pickle, and a bunch of other clever and complex encoding schemes.…