Rikard Ottosson on software, systems and the people around them
I keep going on about why software development should consist of empowered cross-functional teams, and a lot of actual experts have written very well – at length – about this, and within manufacturing the Japanese showed…
I have recently “thought led” on LinkedIn, claiming that the future of software development lies in mob programming. I think this take automatically flips my bozo bit in the minds of certain listeners, whilst for many pe…
E-mail used to be a file. A file called something like /var/spool/mail/username, and new email would appear by text being appended to that file. The idea was that the system could send notifications to you by appending m…
I have been banging on about the perils of the Great Rewrite in many previous posts. Huge risks regarding feature creep, lost requirements, hidden assumptions, spiralling cost, internal unhealthy competition where the ne…
I know in the labour market of today, suggesting someone pick up programming from scratch is akin to suggesting someone dedicate their life to being a cooper. Sure, in very specific places, that is a very sought after sk…
In popular parlance you have two categories of code: your own, freshly written code, which is the best code, code that never will be problematic – and then there is legacy code, which is someone else’s code, untested, un…
If you tried to do anything online today you may have had more problems than usual. All kinds of services were failing, because some storage at AWS on the eastern seaboard was having problems.…
What are cookies? Why do they exist? Why on earth would I ever NOT want to accept delicious cookies? What is statelessness? All that and more in this treatise on cookies and privacy.…
I used to spend time with automotively inclined gentlemen. There were two distinct schools of the car hobby at that time. Finbilsmek, e.g. renovating a classic car or preparing a race car – sure, it eats all your money i…
Why the rush to measure developer productivity?…