Emacs & Lisp ... a match made in heaven
2020-04-12 Software-Engineering Tips & Tricks Nerdy Emacs Lisp
At community (as everywhere these days) we are not using one programming language, we are using a set of programming languages, means for one week I ... Read More
Discussing Remote ... the book!!!
2020-04-07 Software-Engineering Management TEDN Remote Culture Books
These days people look for advice and insight into how to build and run a remote-first engineering organization. And want/need to learn fast!!! One ... Read More
The Extreme Digital Nomad (TEDN)
2020-03-31 Software-Engineering Management TEDN Culture
In the last 25 years I have build and run multiple distributed software engineering organisations. My management style/philosophy is based on a couple ... Read More
I love Haskell
2019-04-06 Software-Engineering Haskell
Over the last 2 years I did a fair bit of Haskell (after doing a fairer bit of Scala for 8 years). And I love Haskell. Don’t get me wrong: If ... Read More
Hub-First vs. Remote-First vs. Pod-First ... Skating to where the puck is going to be
2019-03-01 Software-Engineering Management Remote
Fig 1: Skating to where the puck ... Finding good and the right talent for an engineering organisation is as challenging as ever. And then you need ... Read More
Advent of Code ... Final cut (... and First cut :))
2018-11-30 Software-Engineering Haskell Eta Scala Kotlin Advent-of-Code
Today Advent of Code 2018 started again (at 05:00am (GMT))!!! And … … just in time … … today I am also wrapping up Advent ... Read More
The vertical bar screen of death ... the story of an unexpected win-win
2018-09-21 Software-Engineering Nerdy Tips & Tricks
Last year I spend some time and money to “renovate” my old 17-inch Macbook Pro (remember the good old times … when Apple was ... Read More
Advent of Code 2017 ... Revolutions!!!
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Advent-of-Code Scala Kotlin
Let’s talk about the Advent of Code … again!!! Last time we talked about a/the Scala implementation. This time around I figured that I ... Read More
Kotlin ... the better Java?
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Kotlin
Everybody is talking about Kotlin. Me too!!! Obviously the question is: Is Kotlin the next better thing? Is Kotlin going to replace Java? Is Kotlin ... Read More
Learn you a ... Haskell!
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Haskell
In the last 6 month I have started to wonder. First of all … I am convinced that using the concepts of functional programming will give you ... Read More