Assembly and abstractions
Up until the 1980s, when you bought a computer, you occasionally needed to program it using machine code, i.e. directly feeding the processor instructions in its native instruction set. Programming language abstractions …
Death of Enterprise C# as we know it?
The constant battle between getting paid and getting a wide audience has simultaneously hit a number of formerly open source products in the .NET space as they move towards closed source paid licensing in future versions…
Barriers – trade and otherwise
The last few days of highly retro American foreign policy and the ensuing global market chaos has made everyone aware of trade barriers, and will make everyone fully grasp the consequences of a trade war, the same way th…
How small is small?
I have great respect for the professional agile coach and scrum master community. Few people seem to systematically care for both humans and business, maintaining profitability without ever sacrificing the humans. Now, h…
Surprises
TIL, TIFO or “I was today years old when”…
Abstractions, abstractions everywhere
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Cutler, Star Wars, fast feedback and accuracy
As my father’s son I have always been raised to see the plucky heroes at AT&T and Bell Labs, Brian Kernighan and Ken Ritchie as the Jedi, fighting with the light side of the force, thus foregoing force lightning and read…
McKinsey and the elusive IT department
I know that both my readers are software developers, so – this is a bit of a departure.…
GitHub Action shenanigans
When considering what provider to use in order to polish and cut the diamonds that are your deployable units of code into the stunningly clear diamonds they deserve to be, you have probably considered CircleCi, Azure Dev…
.NET C# CI/CD in Docker
When building software in the modern workplace, you want to automatically test and statically analyse your code before pushing code to production. This means that rather than tens of test environments and an army of manu…