Starting a new IT assignment is like solving a jigsaw puzzle…
It’s just that:
– you don’t know how many pieces the puzzle has
– whether you need all the pieces
– which part of the jigsaw puzzle is relevant for your role
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Why don't you hear what I say? (LLEWT 2024)
LLEWT 2024 was a peer conference with the theme “communication” that happened a few weekends ago in North-Wales. Dear reader, it was quite the trip to get there! A boat, an extremely shitty English hotel and a long car ride later we finally arrived in Wales. It took us about
"Good vibes only". How about you learn how to cope?!
I was at LLEWT last week, a peer conference on Anglesey, north Wales, where the theme was: communication. My report, “Why don’t you listen to what I say” was chosen by the content moderator. I’ll write about that topic on a separate occasion, because right now I feel
Stop trying to make refactoring happen, it's not going to happen.
I went to Joy of Coding yesterday, a one-day conference in Rotterdam. Two of the talks were about refactoring. One talk called it “mending code”, and zoomed in on this rather strange phenomenon in IT: we’d rather demolish some code and write it new and fresh, than fix the
About that time I was "blessed" by the algorithm.
Imagine trying to say things that contain nuance on social media in the year of the lord, 2024.
Yeah, that shit doesn’t fly well with the algorithms.
The algorithms decide if you will win the popularity contest on the internet, by pushing out your content to more people to
Coping hard.
Something happened last week that made me realize something funny about myself: I am coping hard in one aspect of life.
I always pretend I don’t care about things. I make fun of things. I ridicule things. But that’s a coping mechanism because honestly, I care a lot.
My 4 favorite heavy metal singers with angel-like cleans and super sick grunts
Let’s do something light-hearted for a change! If you know me just a little bit, you know I like my metal as heavy as it gets. That doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate a lovely voice! I just appreciate it more when it’s offset with the