Do you want to have a nice @yourmastodon@yourdomain? [Read More]

Deploying a service on a new machine, I ran into a problem. Some services did not want to start, and the error was very cryptic [Read More]

I’m solving the Advent of Code 2022 pushing all the code to GitHub and I’m also following the Advent of Cyber 2022. [Read More]

Staffing issues typically originate from a failure to understand project requirements, flawed resource estimation, and poor management. In my current role, I have found that hiring and retaining good developers can be challenging in today’s marketplace due to their massive demand. High salaries and extravagant titles aren’t enough; as a company, we constantly balance keeping our employees challenged and engaged without over-working them. Furthermore, I have seen an increased desire for developers to work on truly meaningful and interesting projects. [Read More]

Documentation often suffers because clients and developers alike fail to recognise its importance, instead prioritising development activities to demonstrate progress and value. Documentation supports the entire lifecycle of software development: from helping individual developers recall why they built something in a certain way, to enabling continuity between developers, to facilitating user adoption. Thus, insufficient documentation can undermine the success of an entire project. [Read More]