Reminds me of my current customer. We (another freelancer and me) built an application that replaced an Excel sheet, which was the foundation of the business until then. So the usual so far. We have a policy that our…
I'm usually first in line when talking shit about the German government, but here I am absolutely for this. I was really positively surprised when I had my apprenticeship at a publishing company and we had a routine to…
Ha, I've written a lot of these Makefiles and the "make dev" command even became a personal standard that I added to each project. I don't know if I read about that, or if it just developed into that because it just…
I have a paywall there :(
Absolutely! I have used Copilot for a few weeks and then stopped when I worked on a machine that didn't have Copilot installed and I immediately struggled with even basic syntax. Now I often use LLMs as advanced rubber…
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…
About Concord: There is a lot of discussion about why Concord failed. Some say that the price was too high. But at the same time, games with the same or even higher prices sold just fine. Then there is the argument that…
I think that wokeness is increasing racism. The woke people tend to throw around "-isms" a lot. It is sometimes enough to not be on the extreme left-wing view to be called "racist", or even "Nazi" immediately.…
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…
I think that this is true, and I hate it. In a previous job, I had to work with the worst (shop)-framework I have ever seen. It is very expensive, over-engineered in the worst ways, very slow and awful to use. The…
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…
Same for me. I got here via pushbullet and I was at first confused about the comments here until I saw yours ^^
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…
I remember when I had to use Jira for the first time, which had this "n days ago" display for the tickets. I don't remember if that couldn't be changed or the person in charge just could not/would not do it, but I…
Reminds me of my current customer. We (another freelancer and me) built an application that replaced an Excel sheet, which was the foundation of the business until then. So the usual so far. We have a policy that our…
I'm usually first in line when talking shit about the German government, but here I am absolutely for this. I was really positively surprised when I had my apprenticeship at a publishing company and we had a routine to…
Ha, I've written a lot of these Makefiles and the "make dev" command even became a personal standard that I added to each project. I don't know if I read about that, or if it just developed into that because it just…
I have a paywall there :(
Absolutely! I have used Copilot for a few weeks and then stopped when I worked on a machine that didn't have Copilot installed and I immediately struggled with even basic syntax. Now I often use LLMs as advanced rubber…
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…
About Concord: There is a lot of discussion about why Concord failed. Some say that the price was too high. But at the same time, games with the same or even higher prices sold just fine. Then there is the argument that…
I think that wokeness is increasing racism. The woke people tend to throw around "-isms" a lot. It is sometimes enough to not be on the extreme left-wing view to be called "racist", or even "Nazi" immediately.…
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…
I think that this is true, and I hate it. In a previous job, I had to work with the worst (shop)-framework I have ever seen. It is very expensive, over-engineered in the worst ways, very slow and awful to use. The…
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…
Same for me. I got here via pushbullet and I was at first confused about the comments here until I saw yours ^^
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…
I remember when I had to use Jira for the first time, which had this "n days ago" display for the tickets. I don't remember if that couldn't be changed or the person in charge just could not/would not do it, but I…