Writings and ramblings
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Planning: Mandatory
Planning is the deliberate act of deciding what matters, what comes first, and what can wait. Most failed software projects do not fail because the team lacked talent. They fail because they lacked a plan.
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All Roads Lead to Latency: The Microservices Illusion
Microservices are often presented as an inevitable evolution of software architecture. The rationale goes something like this: once your codebase reaches a certain age or size, gravity itself pulls you toward service boundaries, containers, and a mesh of…
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The Illusion of Intelligence at the Cutting Edge
Artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), is routinely described as cutting edge technology. The term is used so often that it has almost lost its meaning. Any product, workflow, or company that includes an LLM is assumed to…
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Memories
There was a time when software respected the machine it ran on. Developers measured memory in kilobytes, not because they were nostalgic minimalists, but because they had no choice. Code was written with intent, because waste meant failure.…
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Swipe to Skip Learning
For aspiring developers and juniors entering the field, this moment in time is pivotal. You’re being told you can build apps faster than ever, launch startups in a weekend, learn “just enough” programming to glue AI tools together.…
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Swipe for Technical Debt
AI coding tools are spreading through software companies faster than any previous technology. Startups are embracing them for “productivity”, teams are embedding them in every IDE, and developers are boasting about how much code they can generate in…
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Software project management method obituaries considered harmful
I’ve noticed a recent increase in project management method “obituaries” – Agile is dead, waterfall is dead, scrum is dead. I believe this sort of negativity should be considered harmful. Why? Every method was born out of necessity…
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End of File
Since the dawn of modern computing, files have been an integral concept in organizing and storing data. Today each device keeps internally track of hundreds of thousands or millions of files. This sheer quantity means that files perhaps…
