Every day someone new decides that writing code will be the thing they'd like to do for a living. Or maybe just for fun. And thanks to incredible frameworks and Stack Overflow, getting your first results has become somewhat easy. This is great but has misled some people into thinking that building…
This would all be way easier if we would just throw everything away and build it ourselves.
Over the years, I have seen companies and teams struggle with innovation. It might have worked initially, but after some time,e, the spark that existed when the company was young is now missing. As innovation is important, companies sometimes react with measures such as dedicated innovation teams.…
I've written about early integration and why it leads to better features. While this is true you might not want to roll out changes to all users at once. For instance, you might be working on a feature for a very specific target group and want to make sure that once you release it for everyone…
It's a running joke at Signavio that the product I'm working on does not support undo and redo. And even though we built the tool with redux we're still struggling to get that functionality in. I'm not going to bore you with the details of why it's hard for us but over the years(!) I got an idea of…
Lately, I've come across a couple of blog posts like "Most Technical Debt Is Just Bullshit" and "Technical Debt Isn’t Real". They're discussing whether we twisted the initial definition of technical debt to mean anything and thus nothing. People have since then asked me about my opinion on the…
Cohesion means you make sure that the parts that belong together are close to each other. 💥 Bam! Shortest blog post ever!