Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, which is where the word “salary” comes from. Salt was so scarce that it worked as currency. Then we learned to extract it efficiently, prices collapsed, and salt merchants didn’t disappear. Abundance opened uses no one had imagined: food preservation at scale, chemistry, de-icing roads. Continue reading Code is a commodity
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Code is solved, people not
When I started my career in IT, I thought the hardest problems in computer science were cache invalidation and naming things. Continue reading Code is solved, people not
Introducing git switch and git restore
When you work with Git using the command line, you know the git checkout command for sure. Continue reading Introducing git switch and git restore