Working in the software industry has taught me one thing. There is a lot of unneeded complexity going on. But it also made me wonder, why is that? Why do we seem to favour complexity over simplicity? In this post I will try to give my ideas on this from…
A bit of a controversial topic, code comments. From what I read there are at least 2 major thoughts on the internet, and in practice, there might be at least a third. So let's see what I mean with this. No comments, period. There is a group of…
This Ghost site is running on my local nas, using an ISP that has implements Carrier-grade NAT (cg-nat). So for the technically inclined, one might wonder. How is it possible to expose a host to the internet, while the host is hidden behind multiple layers of nat translation(s). And…
Recently I migrate my blog to Ghost. There are several reasons, but mostly it's driven by having access to an easy way to schedule and write posts. Hugo, in combination with Cloudflare pages is a nice combination, if one is working a lot in git and GitHub. Unfortunately…
Why does it feel like everything is moving to a subscription? Think of your music collection, television via streaming services, and watching a movie, or playing a game? More and more there are offerings to get access to these media via a subscription service. And even if you buy something,…
As mentioned in earlier posts, I do own a Holocubic or Holo from FiberPunk. This 'system' is basically a small lcd screen, with an esp32. This system comes by default with a (limited) firmware, that allows one to view stl files. So, just some limited functionality. Having been…
Year over year the (computer) systems we work with, are becoming faster and faster. Still the software doesn’t give the feeling that the speed increases. And worse, when hardware isn’t upgraded quickly enough the system will become slower. We all know the great new feeling of a new…
When I was working as an infrastructure architect, I regularly had interesting discussions with stakeholders related to change. To start off, change is something that is different from flexibility when it comes to designs. With change, I refer to changes in requirements or goals during a project. With this explanation,…