(Almost) everything that’s wrong with nowadays software development

In case you haven’t come across it, this week a lot of Javascript code suddenly broke when one particular module was removed from a code repository.

Google can’t search anymore

What do these six people have in common?

• Julius Caesar, Roman statesman

Show bad-mannered bots the door to 403

In a perfect world any unsolicited bot would first query /robots.txt to check if it is welcome in the first place.

Can Microsoft afford to charge for Windows 10 (and will they)?

Windows, quo vadis?

In 2013 I wrote a short statement about Windows 8, leaving the endless debates about Start Menu vs Start Screen aside and…

Practice what you preach

In May 2015 Google announced Android M(arshmallow) and with it a new runtime permission model.

Outsourcing vs Trump vs Vice vs Everybody

200 words/second

What if drivers were hired like programmers?

Job title:

Car Driver

Job requirements:

Professional skills in driving normal- and heavy-freight cars, buses and trucks, trolley buses, trams, subways…