My Q2 2023 Reading ListSelected books I’ve read in Q2 2023, and my thoughts about them.Jul 16, 2023Jul 16, 2023
Published inBetter ProgrammingMental Models, Programming Fictions, and WittgensteinThis is a follow-up essay to my previous one about Empathy and Debuggers, where I confessed to my preference for empathically understanding…Jun 19, 20234Jun 19, 20234
Opportunistic Hiring for Organic GrowthWorkload in organisations is often not ideally distributed — usually, there are a few folks having permanently a huge backlog — which they…Apr 29, 2023Apr 29, 2023
Published inBetter ProgrammingDebuggers and EmpathyIn my social bubble, regularly using debuggers is popular. During development, we use it to see how the code behaves, what the call stack…Apr 8, 20232Apr 8, 20232
My Q1 2023 Reading ListSelected books I’ve read in Q1 2023, and my thoughts about them.Mar 30, 2023Mar 30, 2023
Childbirth: Personal ExperienceWhat follows is a short recollection of what my wife and I went through around the time of the birth of our first child. It turns out that…Jan 1, 2023Jan 1, 2023
AI and Slide DecksPreparing Slide Decks has always been an unwelcome chore for me. A significant contributor is searching for the right images, or, in the…Sep 15, 20221Sep 15, 20221
A short performance story: Scala Native and CArgsRecently, I got intrigued about Scala Native, essentially a compiler+runtime which allows a native performance for Scala — in particular…May 18, 2022May 18, 2022