Evan X. Merz

Posts tagged "opinion"

1. Three underappreciated jazz Christmas albums

   2025-12-03  Evan X. Merz

   music, jazz, christmas, review, opinion

2. Impermanence is a virtue: Why building for forever is folly

   2025-11-23  Evan X. Merz

   gardening, garden design, design, garden, opinion

3. Name calling is still rude and ineffective

   2025-11-02  Evan X. Merz

   opinion, politics, social media, united states

4. The problem with smart phones

   2024-11-23  Evan X. Merz

   technology, music, phones, luddite, tech, opinion

5. New realtor rule makes it harder for young people to enter the housing market

   2024-08-17  Evan X. Merz

   real estate, realtors, housing, opinion, politics

6. Goodbye Gatsby! Hello Eleventy!

   2024-06-03  Evan X. Merz

   programming, web programming, blogging, static site, blog, opinion

7. Save the planet. Wear a hat

   2022-06-17  Evan X. Merz

   art, painting, climate change, hats, water, opinion

8. Why is software development so slow?

   2022-04-14  Evan X. Merz

   programming, web development, leadership, management, conflict, opinion

9. Single File Components are Good

   2019-06-16  Evan X. Merz

   vue, coding, web programming, frontend, opinion

10. Remember Nina Simone

    2019-01-27  Evan X. Merz

    music, jazz, criticism, opinion

11. It's really difficult to write about E. M. Forster

    2018-06-22  Evan X. Merz

    literature, books, em forster, a room with a view, opinion

12. SoundCloud, I love you, but you're terrible

    2018-02-03  Evan X. Merz

    music, software, web design, opinion

13. Pride in Software Craftsmanship

    2018-01-29  Evan X. Merz

    web design, programming, clean code, design patterns, programmers, opinion

14. When Code Duplication is not Code Duplication

    2017-03-15  Evan X. Merz

    programming, coding, design patterns, web programming, object oriented design, opinion

15. I love Pandora, but where is the discovery?

    2016-12-11  Evan X. Merz

    music discovery, criticism, music, internet radio, new music, spotify, opinion

16. How Can Comments be Controversial?

    2016-01-16  Evan X. Merz

    programming, coding, design patterns, web development, opinion