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The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do

The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do

The Developer's Code isn't about the code you write, it's about the code you live by.

2012

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On Building Software

My 25-Year Career in Web Design Through the Eyes of the Wayback Machine

Remembering the excitement of a new medium, coming to terms with its ephemerality, and rediscovering some embarrassing little treasures.

14 min readMay 10, 2024

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The Narrative Arc

A Gift for the Bus Bully

The bully and the bullied are often on the same side of the game

4 min readMay 2, 2024

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A child seated on the front of a bus looking back toward the rest of his classmates

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Recreating Baseball Scoreboards out of Plain Old HTML and CSS

3 min readApr 28, 2024

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Beyond the Scoreboard

The 400 Meters is the Most Barbaric Race in Track

One lap full of deceit and misdirections, but one that even a pedestrian runner can conquer

7 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Beyond the Scoreboard

How the No-Huddle Spread Offense Nearly Got Me in Deep Trouble

When your mom finds something in your closet that isn’t the thing she thinks it is

7 min readFeb 15, 2024

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Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois.

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On Building Software

Old School Workarounds: Keeping the Screen Up to Date

Years ago, it was common assumption that when a page loaded, nothing about it would change until you manually refreshed the page.

8 min readMay 10, 2024

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On Building Software

Championing the Doer

A pep talk for those of you building software alone

2 min readApr 30, 2024

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On Building Software

We Shouldn’t be Surprised That Code Gets That Way

A lesson from a kitchen cleanup

3 min readApr 23, 2024

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On Building Software

Flash is Good for Web Designers…and Its Good for the Web.

I wrote this in 2001, during my heyday as a Flash developer, and thought I’d copy and paste it here for perpetuity.

3 min readApr 4, 2024

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On Building Software

Professionals are Often Just Sliver Experts

At a big company, you can’t just be an Engineer.

2 min readMar 27, 2024

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Ka Wai Cheung

Ka Wai Cheung

Book Author

I write about software, design, fatherhood, and nostalgia usually. Dad to a boy and a girl. Creator of donedone.com. More at kawaicheung.io.

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