Rikard Ottosson on software, systems and the people around them
All code is just some text. In the future all code may be English / French / Chinese in .md files, but the specific language is not relevant right now. Why then bother with Structured Programming, Object Oriented Program…
The bygone much-derided Software Craftsmanship debate brought forward and addressed some of the same topics we now see bubble up from the large democratisation of software construction as more – previously only casually …
Recently there have been multiple very serious supply chain exploits that have yet to cease causing problems. Security folks laugh and say “least privilege”, “patch hygiene” and shrug at us mere mortals just trying to go…
Boomers gave us the internet. Gen X would like to claim we were the only ones to know an online world and a “real world”. We got our mobile phones as adults, basically. Millennials now claim to be the first online people…
Time’s Arrow. Energy can only change phase in one direction without needing physical work. I.e a cup of coffee cools down when left in room temperature. You will need to actually heat it up, perform work, for the cup to …
Picture the scene: you are getting warnings by your OS that you are running out of disk space, but you can’t understand the output of du well enough to take action. You miss the old school tooling on windows where you wo…
I am going to armchair quarterback the future of Windows. I have absolutely no insight into what Microsoft are doing, and no deeper knowledge into the internals of Windows than having read the odd Windows Internals book …
You will have seen property magnates strangle the property market by building data centres on spec often poorly as the demands of a data centre are quite different than those of an office building or a warehouse, you wil…
Us old folks reminisce about the olden days when you would hit a button and the corresponding character would appear on the screen immediately. A lot of old custom built ERP or POS software would be impenetrable for a ne…