Tech

Tech related stuff. That is, mostly, ramblings about software engineering and related topics.

2023/02/16 Understanding what a Build System is – With Illustrations
2022/11/12 On Deleveraged Time – should everything always be amplified?
2022/10/16 Phorge is here – Phabricator’s successor is live – Notes on Niche Software
2022/07/19 Code as Code – Architecture as Code? – The Inevitable Slide Towards Everything as Code!
2022/07/13 Searching for a job – while keeping my stress at as low a level as possible
2022/07/11 Slicing The Cube – The permanent and dynamic game of priorities and incentives alignment
2022/06/27 Indie services with minimal & cheap web-presence – Small bets for backend folks on a budget
2022/06/26 What is Programming? – The path to pleasing a hard master.
2022/05/13 The Shape of Things – Approaching the (Modular) Monolith vs. Micro-Services Question
2022/05/10 On Mindset, Behavior and Tools – Non-Obvious Causalities & Rippling Back Pressure
2022/05/05 Getting Into Build Engineering – The Case Study Of My Own Path
2022/03/15 CAP minus C: Learning to Love the Lack of Consistency – ZIO World 2022
2022/02/22 Interesting the Youth in Tech & CompSci: To What Problem Is It The Solution?
2022/02/15 Thou Shallst Not Randomly Partition – Accidental Complexity Illustrated With A Stream
2022/02/14 Pseudo-Arc – Emulating the Phabricator and Arcanist approach almost anywhere you Code
2021/10/21 Two Tiny ZIO Stream Trappings: How Even Good Frameworks Still Require The Use Of Your Brain
2021/10/12 Security And Type Safety: Abusing Your Compiler Is A Good Thing To Do.
2021/09/19 What Is A Build System? A Gentle Introduction To Over-Thinking.
2021/05/04 Software Is About Modeling the World: Reflections and a Fourier Transform Analogy
2021/05/03 I can’t possibly understand everything: takes on a heavily limiting belief
2021/03/13 Compliance & (productivity) Costs – Naïve Approaches Suck More Than Expected
2020/11/19 Measuring Organizational Fragmentation: What’s in a Silo Anyway?
2020/11/18 The Curse Of Cardinality: Where Bazel Provides Increasing Returns
2020/08/28 The Prefetcher Pattern – When Caching Ain’t Enough, Prefetching Saves Your Day!
2020/08/17 Scala: A (slight) equivalent for Go channels with ZIO
2020/07/30 A Philosophy of (Code) Comments – Or how to judge your motivation.
2020/07/25 Hard & Fast Rules when building RDBMS/SQL/Database schemas
2020/07/10 Modular Monolith Monorepo – A Weird Conflation
2020/06/30 Types of Timeseries – A Zoology
2020/06/26 Declarative Releases With Kaeter
2020/02/23 Should You Accept an Offer After Your First Internship?
2020/02/12 Talk at Scala.IO 2019 Lyon – France
2020/02/01 A Profession of Faith: It’s About the Toolchain — All The Way Down
2020/01/26 The Sins of the Firstly Employed Software Engineer