Publishing ranking and filtering algorithms
Modular monoliths
Go annoyances
Up-dimensioning for VR
Generics, languages and tourists
Writing new system software
Public data
When the state maintains data that is supposed to be public, it isn’t always that leaders from a bygone era understand what this implies. The process of dragging laggards into the present can be painful - and you may end up having to take it to court.
Artificial incompetence
Is Github Copilot something to get your panties in a twist over? Well, no, not really. But what’s more interesting is what made you think it would be?
Daemon pacing
Blaming your tools
Whenever race car drivers serve up excuses for why they didn’t win they tend to blame their equipment, their team or both. It is never the fault of the race car driver that she or he fails to win. It’s the suspension. It’s the engine. It’s the wrong tyres. In many ways, race car drivers have that in common with a certain class of programmers who blame anyone but themselves for their hardships.