According to a tired cliche, the victors write history. Similarly, classifying an event as a protest, a coup, or a riot also depends on one’s perspective. But why don’t we try walking a mile in somebody else’s shoes for once… Last night, tens or […]
How is Outlawing Fireworks Going to Save Us from COVID?
For those not in the know, the Dutch government has been very vocal about “trusting the population” during the entire COVID crisis. People should be smart about who they see, be smart about vacationing, be smart about distancing, about hoardingshopping, and smart about wearing […]
CacheRegistry – Improved Near-Real-Time Caching of Complex Object Graphs
So, for my GitLab project management tool, I Я Project Manager, I need access to a lot of GitLab artifacts. So many, really, that loading takes a good few seconds, which is maybe acceptable for a first load (I can slap up a progress […]
Gitlab for Project Managers
If you don’t find mathematical tuples XML/JSON/YAML/HTML a list of tasks with start/end dates graphical, I don’t know what to tell ya… Yet, people wil incessantly try and get me to update their Excels or (worse) ask me for one whenever I run a […]
Forget Micro-services, It’s Time to Talk About Micro-applications
Micro-services is the buzzword-compliant way to talk about applications these days. That’s also ok. It’s not great, but it’s ok. Micro-services have two problems in my opinion: they are too small, and they are not small enough. To solve all your problems, even that […]
When Did Social Media Die?
Conjecture: Social media is dead and has been for years. But today, everything is a social media, there’s Facebook and VK and Instagram and Twitter and Snapchat and WhatsApp and TikTok and… Sure, but hear me out… Back when Facebook wasn’t for wine-aunts to […]