When discussing advanced AI, sometimes the following exchanges happens: “Perhaps advanced AI won’t kill us. Perhaps it will trade with us” “We don’t trade with ants” I think it’s interesting to get clear on exactly why we don’t trade with … Read more
I saw an interesting discussion on Twitter today. People were talking about messy desktops and the always full Downloads folder on macOS. These two directories are usually full of two different file types: random internet downloads and lots of screenshots. … Read more
Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which … Read more
You don’t need a modal window YouDontNeedAModalWindow.dev Just make a separate page. Maybe you have a master/detail setup on your web app. There’s a list of products/documents/whatever, and clicking on one brings up the details. Close Lorem ipsum dolor, sit … Read more
Why did you choose Scrum instead of Kanban? If you can’t answer that question, you didn’t choose Scrum. Someone else chose it for you. Even in the rare case people can answer this question, they reveal their deep misunderstanding of … Read more
March 12, 2023 A user opens an issue complaining the server-side application you developed for them frequently crashes with “too many open files” error under heavy load. What do you do? Admin: “Just tell them to raise their file descriptor … Read more
One of the first XKCD comics to go viral was this one, #303: Today, the web developer version would be “my site’s building” and they would be playing swords in VR. Sites take time to build these days. A large … Read more
I see a lot of new terms like Command-Event, Event-Based Compute, etc., presented around Event-Driven Architecture. Let me clear that up because there are no such things. The real split is Event-Driven Architecture vs Messaging. Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is about … Read more
Our story begins. “Hey, ChatGPT is cool” Like everyone else when ChatGPT launched a few months ago we dove in and played with. It is impressive. In January, as the new AI queston and answer service became more and more … Read more
I used to love blogging, but now it’s been a few years since I’ve written a blog post. What changed? At some point, everything got serious. I started to only want to publish the best things, so I didn’t publish … Read more