With a handful of tricks, I managed to make writing effortless. — It must be 10 years by now since the first time that I picked up a microphone and started using voice dictation. …

And sprint reviews are pillow talk — I had way too much fun writing this post, if you have even half as much fun reading you’re in for a treat. Or a tacky mess you wish you could forget. You never know until the morning after. So, here’s why programming is like sex, totally. You have either too much or too little of it Either you’re starved…

This may just be your most important skill to perfect — It is hardly a secret that many of us programmers spend a lot of time at our desks — likely more than just eight hours per day. Gaming is fun, but that’s six more hours of sitting and staring at a screen after eight hours of doing the very same…

The ultimate programmer’s guide to social life — The pandemic has taught us all a thing or two about life — such as that people are really just JSON files wrapped in a nice frontend. …

Fixing bugs in a blackbox is incredibly fun once it works — Today I thought about one of my favourite “programming legends” that may well be an urban myth — and my own version of a blackbox system that needed debugging. The urban myth is that radioactive train carts from Ukraine caused bugs on a computer system, you can read about it…

Quick automations that I profit from each and every day. — 2020 was a great year for me — this little annoyance of a global pandemic aside. I moved out of the city, have five months left at my job, automated my life, sit here now with an uncertain future and all the freedom I could wish for. Life’s a tumble…

Because writing code is not where it stops — VS Code is well-known and has done what few others have achieved: Uniting people across the globe to agree on the same tool and praise it high and low. Well, I love it myself, but at the same time I think that few writers who aren’t also coders have it…

How a seemingly slow way of working quickly becomes much faster — I’m sure you have seen this interesting rift between programmers that goes beyond the friendly competition about who favors which IDE or which programming language has the nicer syntax — the rift that extends to the very core of how we navigate the systems in front of us. In essence…

Easier debugging using more thoughtful and descriptive errors — I need to rant a bit here: The program I maintain at work has many cute quirks. “An error has occurred” is not one of them. This is not just how that error message starts. It’s also how it ends. Or how about “Information about the error is stored in…