SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

On Alarm Dumb Numbness - A Primer

If you’re like most of the human workforce on this planet, you have to wake almost every day at a specific time, adhering to a more or less well-defined schedule. To help you with that particular e...

13 Dec 2020

SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

Code does not wear company colours

After a few projects and some nasty burns, eventually, any engineer understands that the code doesn’t care. It will compile, or it will be interpreted, it will run, and it will fail or succeed, but...

12 Nov 2020

SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

JRuby / JVM encoding flags

Once upon a time, I was developing a couple of extensions for Logstash.

01 Feb 2013