I have worked in multiple companies where the internally developed software was central to the business success, yet it was handled in an extremely bad way, preventing it from using even a small percentage of its…
I guess it totally depends on the specific use cases. Just yesterday, I asked Gemini 2.5 for how to test a Laravel artisan command that internally calls another artisan command using the Pest testing framework. Gemini…
I have met several of these leaders. Problem is, that very few of them are also very successful. Most of these "leaders" that I met, based a lot of their success from basically being able to stack their bs very high and…
> Concord is that the game was poorly marketed, had bad character designs, and also one of the developers made some ill-considered tweets 4 years before the release of this game. You almost got it. Not "some developer…
I agree. I still have to rely on my car for basically everything because the same government also fucked up the rail system so severely that it barely works in my region. When I moved from a small village to the city, I…
I don't get why you would write your first two sentences. It is very obvious how the automobile lobby has a direct influence here. Here is an excellent documentary (in German) that analyzes the issues with the DB.…
I agree it's not a black-and-white problem, but I don't fully agree with your statement about collaboration. I am a senior software developer who was entirely against working from home until 2020. Now, I can't imagine…
Hah. One of my clients is in German insurance tech. They thought the same as you and started recruiting from around the world. They said that German employees are just too expensive. For comparison, a PHP software…
In our region, some people have devices to repel moles or marten using "Sounds that are inaudible for humans". I have yet to come near to one of these devices that I can't hear. And it's not only me, my wife can also…
Well, I know several experienced software developers with good software ideas, but no clue how to sale them. It sounds like bringing them and you together would basically be a guarantees success. By the way; I am…
I am currently sitting at my gaming PC, which does have a Blu Ray drive. I use it about one or two times a year. Just today I threw in a CD with the driver of my newly installed tp-link AXE5400 (WiFi PCIe adapter),…
It is really hard to read this for me. How can anyone think that it is harder to write a proper monolith than implementing a distributed architecture? If you just follow the SOLID principles, you're already 90% there.…
Yes, I completely agree. If your team doesn't have the skills to use a proper architecture within a monolith, letting them loose on a distributed system will make things a lot worse. I've seen that happen multiple times.
Ah yes, the great fun of bug-hunting. Probably most people in working IT have some stories to tell about this. One thing that comes to my mind happened in a company where they used a simple software to create medical…
That reminds me of my last query to ChatGPT. A colleague of mine usually writes "Mop Programming" when referencing out "Mob programming" sessions. So as a joke I asked ChatGPT to render an image of a software engineer…
This is the first time that I saw this blog and I've now read a bunch of those posts. There is so much gold there, it's incredible. So much is going wrong in all those companies, that it is just frustrating to be…
Which would be the worst date format. Just use ISO 8601 (2020-10-21) and you could even sort by the date.
Or you're working in companies that basically stop you from being productive. Managers questioning the developer's decisions, focus on the sales topics instead of fixing the existing product and colleagues taking…
Well, those sites are often running ads probided by Google, so it's understandable why Google doesn't really have a good incentive to follow your first suggestion.
German here. Yes, it's pretty much how you described it. In my previous company they hired a new CTO. He doesn't like anyone who is smarter than him and/or who doesn't just follow orders. He quickly started hiring…
I know several developers, myself included, who are significantly more productive in their personal projects than in their main jobs. This discrepancy can be attributed largely to unnecessary bureaucracy. I have a lot…
The topic has been analyzed quite extensively in my small bubble of very experienced people (mostly software developers, some with management experience, but also other people from various fields). We asked ourselves…
Sad but true; these days you read so many news stories that you first think are satire, but turn out to be true, that sarcastic comments are increasingly difficult to recognize as such without the appropriate notice.
You're almost exactyl describing what went down at my previous employer. The company already had a bunch of poorly written legacy systems which were used by about 50 clerks and written in PHP, Node.js and some .Net.…
I've been searching through the comments for a comment about this item in the list. I am less than 2 meters tall, but I can carry plates wider than 2 meters between my outstreched hands. Does that now mean that I am an…
I have worked in multiple companies where the internally developed software was central to the business success, yet it was handled in an extremely bad way, preventing it from using even a small percentage of its…
I guess it totally depends on the specific use cases. Just yesterday, I asked Gemini 2.5 for how to test a Laravel artisan command that internally calls another artisan command using the Pest testing framework. Gemini…
I have met several of these leaders. Problem is, that very few of them are also very successful. Most of these "leaders" that I met, based a lot of their success from basically being able to stack their bs very high and…
> Concord is that the game was poorly marketed, had bad character designs, and also one of the developers made some ill-considered tweets 4 years before the release of this game. You almost got it. Not "some developer…
I agree. I still have to rely on my car for basically everything because the same government also fucked up the rail system so severely that it barely works in my region. When I moved from a small village to the city, I…
I don't get why you would write your first two sentences. It is very obvious how the automobile lobby has a direct influence here. Here is an excellent documentary (in German) that analyzes the issues with the DB.…
I agree it's not a black-and-white problem, but I don't fully agree with your statement about collaboration. I am a senior software developer who was entirely against working from home until 2020. Now, I can't imagine…
Hah. One of my clients is in German insurance tech. They thought the same as you and started recruiting from around the world. They said that German employees are just too expensive. For comparison, a PHP software…
In our region, some people have devices to repel moles or marten using "Sounds that are inaudible for humans". I have yet to come near to one of these devices that I can't hear. And it's not only me, my wife can also…
Well, I know several experienced software developers with good software ideas, but no clue how to sale them. It sounds like bringing them and you together would basically be a guarantees success. By the way; I am…
I am currently sitting at my gaming PC, which does have a Blu Ray drive. I use it about one or two times a year. Just today I threw in a CD with the driver of my newly installed tp-link AXE5400 (WiFi PCIe adapter),…
It is really hard to read this for me. How can anyone think that it is harder to write a proper monolith than implementing a distributed architecture? If you just follow the SOLID principles, you're already 90% there.…
Yes, I completely agree. If your team doesn't have the skills to use a proper architecture within a monolith, letting them loose on a distributed system will make things a lot worse. I've seen that happen multiple times.
Ah yes, the great fun of bug-hunting. Probably most people in working IT have some stories to tell about this. One thing that comes to my mind happened in a company where they used a simple software to create medical…
That reminds me of my last query to ChatGPT. A colleague of mine usually writes "Mop Programming" when referencing out "Mob programming" sessions. So as a joke I asked ChatGPT to render an image of a software engineer…
This is the first time that I saw this blog and I've now read a bunch of those posts. There is so much gold there, it's incredible. So much is going wrong in all those companies, that it is just frustrating to be…
Which would be the worst date format. Just use ISO 8601 (2020-10-21) and you could even sort by the date.
Or you're working in companies that basically stop you from being productive. Managers questioning the developer's decisions, focus on the sales topics instead of fixing the existing product and colleagues taking…
Well, those sites are often running ads probided by Google, so it's understandable why Google doesn't really have a good incentive to follow your first suggestion.
German here. Yes, it's pretty much how you described it. In my previous company they hired a new CTO. He doesn't like anyone who is smarter than him and/or who doesn't just follow orders. He quickly started hiring…
I know several developers, myself included, who are significantly more productive in their personal projects than in their main jobs. This discrepancy can be attributed largely to unnecessary bureaucracy. I have a lot…
The topic has been analyzed quite extensively in my small bubble of very experienced people (mostly software developers, some with management experience, but also other people from various fields). We asked ourselves…
Sad but true; these days you read so many news stories that you first think are satire, but turn out to be true, that sarcastic comments are increasingly difficult to recognize as such without the appropriate notice.
You're almost exactyl describing what went down at my previous employer. The company already had a bunch of poorly written legacy systems which were used by about 50 clerks and written in PHP, Node.js and some .Net.…
I've been searching through the comments for a comment about this item in the list. I am less than 2 meters tall, but I can carry plates wider than 2 meters between my outstreched hands. Does that now mean that I am an…