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Jan Kammerath
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May 27

Scratch Is The Future: You Should Learn It. Seriously!

The Scratch programming language currently ranks on place 13 on the TIOBE Index. That means it’s more popular than Rust or Ruby. I started coding (is it considered “writing” or “clicking”?) in Scratch for the same reason any adult starts to learn Scratch: my kids started with it. The kids…

Programming

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Scratch Is The Future: You Should Learn It. Seriously!
Scratch Is The Future: You Should Learn It. Seriously!
Programming

5 min read


May 26

From Code To Cash: How To Make Money With Software

I’ve done several presentations at conferences and universities. Through these, I make a lot of very nice and interesting contacts. A young gentleman and fellow software engineer in his mid 20s, who had been in the audiences of one of my presentations, recently approached me. …

Technology

14 min read

From Code To Cash: How To Make Money With Software
From Code To Cash: How To Make Money With Software
Technology

14 min read


May 21

Copilot Leaks: Code I Should Not Have Seen

I am using Github Copilot for some months now and am absolutely impressed by the code it can produce, although that always needs to be cross examined and reviewed. You can’t trust it blindly. My experience is that Copilot quite often produces things like division by zero and other obvious…

Programming

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Copilot Leaks: Code I Should Not Have Seen
Copilot Leaks: Code I Should Not Have Seen
Programming

11 min read


May 10

Frontend JavaScript Secrets: What Books Won’t Teach You

Back in the late 1990s, I was a teenager and build my first websites. After I had gone through the, back then quite simple HTML 3 and 4, later the invention of CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) and finally JavaScript, I encountered a number of things in practice that the books didn’t…

JavaScript

18 min read

Frontend JavaScript Secrets: What Books Won’t Teach You
Frontend JavaScript Secrets: What Books Won’t Teach You
JavaScript

18 min read


May 3

Is The Internet Broken? How It Changed And How To Fix That

Many people claim the Internet is broken. But is it? While it technically still works, there is a lot of truth to the claim. Let’s look into what it means. Usually the main arguments for the claim are a monopolized Internet in the hands of a few large corporations. …

Internet

10 min read

Is The Internet Broken? How It Changed And How To Fix That
Is The Internet Broken? How It Changed And How To Fix That
Internet

10 min read


May 1

How Browsers Work: Everything Developers Need To Know

I interviewed dozens of software developers over the last 20 years. As a Tech Lead, a Manager and as a CTO managing multiple development teams. …

Programming

14 min read

How Browsers Work: Everything Developers Need To Know
How Browsers Work: Everything Developers Need To Know
Programming

14 min read


Apr 23

Boomer Developers: 10 Lessons I Learned From Them

I am now in my late 30s and started to learn to code around the age of 12, in 1996. My professional career as a software engineer took off in the early 2000s when I started working for a local software company. Only aged 17 when I started programming professionally…

Programming

17 min read

Boomer Developers: 10 Lessons I Learned From Them
Boomer Developers: 10 Lessons I Learned From Them
Programming

17 min read


Apr 19

How Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You Fired

I get to see a lot of companies, their infrastructure and their systems architecture through my consulting activities. Over the past 10 years both Kubernetes and Apache Kafka have become extremely common and popular in many businesses. And very often not for the good. How it all starts most of the time The CEO of a medium-sized software…

Kubernetes

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How Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You Fired
How Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You Fired
Kubernetes

9 min read


Apr 16

How Go fixed everything that was wrong with programming

Why do you write software? I write software to build computer programs that solve real world problems. Software that solves very specific problems such as searching for a holiday, finding something I’d like to eat, writing a job application, cleverly investing money, paying for goods, measuring my energy consumption at…

Go

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How Go fixed everything that was wrong with programming
How Go fixed everything that was wrong with programming
Go

8 min read


Oct 30, 2022

Decentralized, you say? Unsolved problems of web3, dapps and p2p

Ever since the Internet existed, different approaches to networking have been taken. The most dominant model today is centralized service providers providing services to their users. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Netflix, just to name a few. These service providers centrally control and operate the highly available and distributed systems…

Web3

9 min read

Decentralized, you say? Unsolved problems of web3, dapps and p2p
Decentralized, you say? Unsolved problems of web3, dapps and p2p
Web3

9 min read

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Jan Kammerath

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I love technology, programming, computers, mobile devices and the world of tomorrow.

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