What Happened To Programming In The 2010s?
How has programming changed in the 2010s? You'd roughly need a decade to talk about all of it, but let me pick out some of the highlights. More »
27 articles tagged with culture
Hackers' Folklore
Some computer terms have a surprising legacy. Many of them are derived from long-obsolete technologies. This post tries to dust off the exciting history of some of these terms that we use every day but aren’t quite sure about their origins. Let’s jump right in! Bike-Shed… More »
Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
Kubernetes is the 800-pound gorilla of container orchestration. It powers some of the biggest deployments worldwide, but it comes with a price tag... More »
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Excel Macros
I never was a big fan of internships, partially because all the exciting companies were far away from my little village in Bavaria and partially because I was too shy to apply. Only once I applied for an internship in Ireland as part of a school program. Our teacher assigned the jobs and so my friend got one at Apple and I ended up at a medium-sized IT distributor — let’s call them PcGo. More »
That Octocat on the Wall
So I'm in a bit of a sentimental mood lately. Github got acquired by Microsoft. While I think the acquisition was well-deserved, I still wish it didn't happen. Let me explain. More »
Ten Years of Vim
When I opened Vim by accident for the first time, I thought it was broken. My keystrokes changed the screen in unpredictable ways, and I wanted to undo things and quit. Needless to say, it was an unpleasant experience. There was something about it though, that kept me coming back and it became my main editor. Fast forward ten years (!) and I still use Vim. Why is that? More »
Modern Day Annoyances - Digital Clocks
This morning I woke up to the beeping noise of our oven’s alarm clock. The reason was that I tried to correct the oven’s local time the day before — and I pushed the wrong buttons. As a result I didn’t set the correct time, instead, I set a cooking timer… and that’s what woke me up today. More »
Learn Some Rust During Hacktoberfest
October is the perfect time to contribute to Open Source — at least according to Github and DigitalOcean. Because that's when they organize Hacktoberfest, a global event where you get a free shirt and lots of street cred for creating pull requests. More »
Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be!
In the last few years, I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of talented Software Engineers. More »
Why Type Systems Matter
I’ve written most of my code in dynamically typed languages such as Python or PHP. But ever since dabbling with Rust, I’ve developed a passion for static type systems. It began to feel very natural to me; like a totally new way to express myself. More »