Big Software
"The grateful moon has granted the city of Lalage a rarer privilege: to grow in lightness" - Italo Calvino A number of software projects I had »
Arguments against JSON-driven development
I don't have to explain how popular JSON is. There are very few projects that don't need to work with JSON, even when they are not »
Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum
Scrum is now the default agile software development methodology. This management framework, which is "simple to understand but difficult to master", is used by 66% of »
PostgreSQL Vacuuming: An Introduction for Busy Devs
If you have interacted with PostgreSQL at any point in your developer career, you have met it: The autovacuum daemon. It fires up every now and »
Lessons from Legacy
Last two years of my working life have been spent on an e-commerce application that is mainly occupied with coordinating inventory items, orders and shipments. The »
What PostgreSQL Tells You About Its Performance
Recently at work I was tasked with improving our legacy application. It has been neglected for a while, and takes its revenge by causing frequent firefighting »
How bugs happen
Here's a tentative list of how software bugs happen. A bug is any behavior of a working program that is considered erronuous, and worthy of being »
On pushing programming closer to woodworking
A few months ago, a widely circulated portrait of Jonathan Ives, and an interview with him appeared in close succession. Interviews with Ives are a real »
A Small Adventure In Functors
The function composition operator in Haskell, i.e. (.), is much more complicated than at first sight, or rather, the function composition operator plus the type system »
Notes on #occupygezi
At the beginning of summer, a tired bit of news from Turkey was followed by something really unexpected, and pinned expats like me to their computers »