The 20-second rule: when a browser tool beats an app
There is a threshold I stopped arguing with: if a job takes less than twenty seconds, I refuse to install anything for it. Not because installers ar…
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Engineering an Annulus Area Check Into Your CAD and GIS Pipeline
If you build CAD, GIS, or numerical simulation software, an "annulus" rarely shows up as a teaching exercise. It shows up as the gap between a pipe…
Angle Conversions in Frontend Code: A QA Checklist for the Bugs You Don't See
You ship a pie chart that looks fine in the browser. The slices line up, the labels sit where you expect, and the customer demo passes. Two weeks la…
py2ez80: The Way To Put Python On The Ti84+CE
This is a tool which I think many will find useful. For a long time, calculators like the Ti84+CE have been stuck with a very limited and painfully…
Stop Reinventing the Wheel: A QA Pattern for Date Math in User-Facing Code
Every backend that touches a date of birth ends up reinventing the same arithmetic. I've watched it happen in three codebases this year alone: a fin…
I Built a Free Spanish Math Calculator That Shows Every Step
Most calculators just give you the answer. You punch in the numbers, hit equals, and get a result. Done. But if you're a student trying to actually…