May 27Member-onlyScratch 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…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
May 26Member-onlyFrom Code To Cash: How To Make Money With SoftwareI’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. …Technology14 min readTechnology14 min read
May 21Member-onlyCopilot Leaks: Code I Should Not Have SeenI 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…Programming11 min readProgramming11 min read
May 10Member-onlyFrontend JavaScript Secrets: What Books Won’t Teach YouBack 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…JavaScript18 min readJavaScript18 min read
May 3Member-onlyIs The Internet Broken? How It Changed And How To Fix ThatMany 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. …Internet10 min readInternet10 min read
May 1Member-onlyHow Browsers Work: Everything Developers Need To KnowI interviewed dozens of software developers over the last 20 years. As a Tech Lead, a Manager and as a CTO managing multiple development teams. While I did not have a fixed list of interview questions to examine competency, I did and do have a set of favourite questions to…Programming14 min readProgramming14 min read
Apr 23Member-onlyBoomer Developers: 10 Lessons I Learned From ThemI 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…Programming17 min readProgramming17 min read
Apr 19Member-onlyHow Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You FiredI 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…Kubernetes9 min readKubernetes9 min read
Apr 16How Go fixed everything that was wrong with programmingWhy 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…Go8 min readGo8 min read
Oct 30, 2022Decentralized, you say? Unsolved problems of web3, dapps and p2pEver 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…Web39 min readWeb39 min read
