Archive

All 326 posts, in reverse chronological order.

TitlePublished
226Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?
225How long does it take for a child to pass a LEGO figurine head?
224Veelgemaakte Nederlandse spelfouten (die je spellingscontrole niet doorheeft)
223My boulevard of broken side project dreams
222There is a time and place for log statements, but when and where?
221A gentle (re-)introduction to Scrum, a framework for project teams
220What makes developers tick (like a time bomb)
219Defining the public value of public service media
218Let’s build a simple journey planner using SQL (part 3, that you can run yourself)
217Best practices for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scripts
216New PHP 8 language features that you may have missed
215I built a theme park in OpenRCT2 based on things that are wrong in tech
214“How is your thesis going?”
213Enhancing the pull request experience with meta-bots
212Let’s build a simple journey planner using SQL (part 2 of probably more than 2)
211Upgrading to a Google Pixel 7 Pro from a Huawei P30 Pro
210Portrayal of Tetrarchic rule in the Roman Empire
209Effectively onboarding newcomers into agile project teams
208Let’s build a simple journey planner using SQL (part 1 of definitely more than 1)
207A review of the Logitech MK295 silent wireless keyboard and mouse set
206Proactively detect and fix flaky tests in your test suite
205Make your hiring process a positive experience for everyone
204What makes a team good at Scrum?
203Visiting Dutch museums with a Netherlands Museum Pass
202Why is everyone on TikTok?
201Migrating pods between Kubernetes nodes (without killing them)
200The colours of Chuniversiteit
199How to stimulate creativity and innovation in distributed journalistic teams
198Execute commands and long-running scripts in the background using screen
197How to write good commit messages
196Calculating the bus factor
195Handling model inheritance in Laravel’s Eloquent ORM without third-party libraries (is a bad idea)
194What does toxicity look like in open-source projects?
193A quick-start guide to public transport in Hong Kong
192Bad practices in continuous integration pipelines and processes
191A long-term review of the M1 MacBook Pro
190Five things that are (not) made in Japan
189The product backlog
188Five things that are (not) made in China
187Cargo-cult containerisation
186Coalaty: A static analysis tool for comments
185How to write good code comments
184Cargo cults in software engineering
183What does China’s foreign policy really look like?
182Xi Jinping Thought on Software Engineering with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
181Take note of these notes on note-taking
180Should scientific papers be written using Word or LaTeX?
179How many unit tests should you write?
178Naming things is hard: Hong Kong street names edition
177Science communication is a skill that needs to be taught