Commentary – Nasni Consultants

The Wrong Question

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:February 9, 2021
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:February 9, 2021

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow The deplatforming of Donald Trump and his alt-right coterie has…

Patterns

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:January 12, 2021
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:January 12, 2021

A few months ago, I said that “making everything into a design pattern is a sign that you don’t know what design patterns really are.” So now, I feel obliged…

What is functional programming?

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:December 8, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:December 8, 2020

It has long seemed to me that functional programming is, essentially, programming viewed as mathematics. Many ideas in functional programming came from Alonzo Church’s Lambda Calculus, which significantly predates anything…

On Exactitude in Technical Debt

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:November 17, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:November 17, 2020

If software is such stuff as dreams are made on, how do we talk about nightmares? Software is not the tangible, kickable stuff our senses are tuned to, so we…

Multi-Paradigm Languages

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:November 10, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:November 10, 2020

The programming world used to be split into functional languages, object-oriented languages, and everything else (mostly procedural languages). One “was” a functional programmer (at least as a hobby) writing Lisp,…

Our Favorite Questions

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 22, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:October 22, 2020

“On peut interroger n’importe qui, dans n’importe quel état; ce sont rarement les réponses qui apportent la vérité, mais l’enchaînement des questions.““You can interrogate anyone, no matter what their state…

AI and Creativity

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 6, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:October 6, 2020

The release of GPT-3 has reinvigorated a discussion of creativity and artificial intelligence. That’s a good discussion to have, primarily because it forces us to think carefully about what we…

Pair Programming with AI

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 8, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:September 8, 2020

In a conversation with Kevlin Henney, we started talking about the kinds of user interfaces that might work for AI-assisted programming. This is a significant problem: neither of us were…

An Agent of Change

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 25, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:August 25, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed how people and businesses spend and operate. Over the coming pages we’ll explore ways in which our current world is already very different from the…

The Least Liked Programming Languages

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 11, 2020
Post category:Online Learning
Post last modified:August 11, 2020

StackOverflow’s 2020 developer survey included a table showing the “most loved, dreaded, and wanted languages.” Loved and wanted languages are, well, sort of boring. The programming languages we dread are…