Open Source
Boomers gave us the internet. Gen X would like to claim we were the only ones to know an online world and a “real world”. We got our mobile phones as adults, basically. Millennials now claim to be the first online people…
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Second Law of Thermodynamics
Time’s Arrow. Energy can only change phase in one direction without needing physical work. I.e a cup of coffee cools down when left in room temperature. You will need to actually heat it up, perform work, for the cup to …
Why computers are slower than they used to be
Us old folks reminisce about the olden days when you would hit a button and the corresponding character would appear on the screen immediately. A lot of old custom built ERP or POS software would be impenetrable for a ne…
Further on how time is wasted
I keep going on about why software development should consist of empowered cross-functional teams, and a lot of actual experts have written very well – at length – about this, and within manufacturing the Japanese showed…
Mob / Pair vs Solo and Speed
I have recently “thought led” on LinkedIn, claiming that the future of software development lies in mob programming. I think this take automatically flips my bozo bit in the minds of certain listeners, whilst for many pe…
Why does code rot?
In popular parlance you have two categories of code: your own, freshly written code, which is the best code, code that never will be problematic – and then there is legacy code, which is someone else’s code, untested, un…
Busman’s Holiday
I used to spend time with automotively inclined gentlemen. There were two distinct schools of the car hobby at that time. Finbilsmek, e.g. renovating a classic car or preparing a race car – sure, it eats all your money i…
You can have nice things
I have come across a few things that are legitimately pleasant to use, so I thought I should collate them here to aid my aging memory. Dear reader, I am not attempting to copy Scott Hanselman’s tools listhttps://www.hans…
Simple vs “Simple”
F has two key features that makes the code very compact. Significant whitespace and forced compilation order.…
Rebootcamp
I have been saying a bunch of things, repeating what others say, mostly, but never actually internalised what they really meant. After a week with Fred Georgehttps://twitter.com/fgeorge52 and Tom Scotthttps://twitter.com…
Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15
Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15http://oredev.org/2013 "Early Bird campaign ends in two weeks, Aug 15"…