Captain’s Log, Stardate 2025.12: We’ve completed another orbit. The nacelles are glowing, the cloud bills are astronomical, and the spreadsheets are still trying to take over the bridge. It’s time for the 2025 Year-End Retrospective. For the developers, IT Directors,...
Dependency management in software development is often akin to playing an elaborate game of Jenga where everyone involved is on their third IPA: every block you move introduces the risk of toppling the tower which is becoming more wobbly over time. Complexity...
Hello, young coders and coding mentors / parents! Today we're diving into an exciting first project perfect for kids based on Pygame - building a Pong clone. Pong is a classic two-player game where each player controls a paddle and tries to hit a ball back and forth...
Readers of this blog and Coder Radio listeners will now that I have fallen for the snake and by that I of course mean Python! Typing that out cracks my little Ruby heart but for reasons that I’ve explained at length on the show The Mad Botter has moved to Python as...
A macOS / Linux developer takes an adventure in Windows 11.
I've been a long-time Ruby developer and more recently have been doing a metric ton of Python work. My goal with this post is to compare the relative pros and cons of each language as I've seen them. This was a difficult post to write, because of the deeply subjective...
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
