
A gentle (re-)introduction to Scrum, a framework for project teams
This blog provides a concise summary of the Scrum framework for anyone who needs a refresher or is just getting started.
I’m currently a full-stack engineer at the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, a public broadcaster in the Netherlands. I received my bachelor’s degree in information science from Utrecht University, my master’s degree in information studies from the University of Amsterdam, and my master’s degree in software engineering from the Open University of the Netherlands.
My primary interests are evidence-based software engineering, human factors in software engineering, web development, public transport, organisational theory, academia, and shitposting. I’m open to collabs, contact me at cflung[at]acm.org.
This blog provides a concise summary of the Scrum framework for anyone who needs a refresher or is just getting started.
Happy workers are productive workers. Limiting unhappiness can be a good way to increase the happiness of your workers.
Why an ACM membership is totally worth the money, even if you’re not an academic.
PHP has gained a lot of new language features over the years. Some of them are frankly a bit insane – but in a good way.
Pull request bots can provide both maintainers and contributors with a lot of useful information, but sometimes less is more.
When all you have is a relational database, everything looks like a table. And you know what? It works! Sort of.
This week’s paper presents a catalogue of best practices for infrastructure as code programs.
When you move a pod to another node, Kubernetes creates a new pod and kills the original. Is there a more humane way?
There’s an easy way to keep scripts and commands “alive” when you disconnect from a server.
What’s better than a crappy train travel planner that runs on my machine? A crappy train travel planner that runs on YOUR machine!
Yet another blog post where I create an unmaintainable mess using our favourite yet very inadequate programming language, SQL.
Life pro tip: get yourself a Museum Pass (aka Museumkaart) if you plan on visiting a lot of Dutch museums in one year.
Public service media exist because they provide value to the general public (who also happen to pay for them).
Many PhD students suffer from mental health issues. This study investigates the underlying reasons and explores potential interventions.
For a long time, the Roman Empire was ruled by just one man. This all changed when emperor Diocletian ascended to the throne.
If all you have is CSS, everything looks like boxes and pseudo-elements.
Alle antwoorden op vragen over academische titels waarvan je niet wist dat je ze had.
The Amsterdam Digital City was one of the first online social networks in the Netherlands. How should it be preserved for future generations?
Depending on where you’re from, public transport in Hong Kong either offers a glimpse of the future or is stuck in the past.
Japan is good at inventing things, but in these five cases it was actually just good at adopting things.
Most of your stuff probably comes from China. Confusingly there also some “Chinese” things that come from somewhere else.
RollerCoaster Tycoon and its spiritual successors are timeless classics that never get old, unlike messages from tech recruiters.
This game is an absolute best-celler.
I replaced my Huawei P30 Pro with a Google Pixel 7 Pro. Should you do the same with your smartphone? As usual, it depends.
A qualitative case study shows how we can design a smooth onboarding experience for agile software development teams.
Logitech’s MK295 reportedly produces 90% less clicking and typing noise. I haven’t put that claim to test, but it does sound pretty quiet.
I illustrated 200 posts on this website using Microsoft PowerPoint and all I got are these lousy colour bar code visualisations.
For reasons that are no longer clear to me, I tried to name each of my computers after a space shuttle (and gave up after 22 years).
As 2022 draws to a close, I wanted to do a quick retrospective; what made me mad, sad, and glad this year?
Let me tell you about that time I wrote a wonky static analysis tool for comments in Java source code…
This month’s side project takes passive-aggressiveness against life’s daily obstacles to a whole new level.
Hoe is het om als backend engineer verantwoordelijk te zijn voor één van de meest bezochte nieuwsplatformen van Nederland?