I’m really passionate about applications crashing! JK, I mostly don’t care and find it super dull. But it is a thing that matters to customers (well, mostly that they don’t but same difference). I had my first run-in with application monitoring in 2000 when […]
The Real Trolley Problem for Self-driving Cars
On March 18, 2018, Uber murdered a women with one of their (apparently not) criminally dangerous “self-driving” cars. The reason was that she was crossing the road outside a pedestrian’s crossing, so the car did not recognise her as a pedestrian (it didn’t expect […]
Generating Test Data using Regular Expressions with Java
Regular expressions allow us to describe families of strings in a user-friendly and intuitive way, if you’re that kind of person. For example, a regular expression can describe valid post codes, phone numbers, names, addresses, etc. A regular expression can be translated into a […]
Why Your Enterprise doesn’t Need Blockchain
Bitcoin has brought a wave of excitement. It’s is mostly because it has brought such concepts as “honest ponzi” and “technical analysis is a real science” to the mainstream, which makes it hilarious that anybody takes it seriously still, but also because they can […]
The Cowardly Convenience of Being Contrarian
Theresa May is a goddamn hero! She stood up for an impossible task: after David Cameron gambled and lost on a vote to leave the EU, none of the winners, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, that mole-looking weasel-guy whose name I forgot or anybody else […]
What’s Wrong with Service Desks these Days
It’s not a question, it’s a statement: I’ll describe exactly what’s wrong with them and my solution, nay, the solution to the problems. This is not some thinly veiled racist protectionistic “the problem is really outsourcing” manifesto, but rather a description of what is wrong with […]