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Are You Still Looking for Wallys in Your Code?
SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

Are You Still Looking for Wallys in Your Code?

This is another Wally-themed episode my friend. Looks like I’m stuck on these, but you do remember those books, right? Where’s Wally? Or Waldo, depending on which side of the Atlantic raised you.

28 Aug 2026
Code does not wear company colours
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
JRuby / JVM encoding flags
SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING

JRuby / JVM encoding flags

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

01 Feb 2013
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