Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
Programming is not an art. Programming is not a discipline of science either. It's a craft - very special kind of craft: * it requires imagination & creativity somehow similar to what art requires * it has very strong scientific foundations, especially in terms of various areas of mathematics * but...
Uncertainty, uncertainty everywhere You know what's the most common error people make when trying to embrace DDD? They tend to focus on DDD's specific DSL (terminology, composition) - entities, boundaries, aggregate roots, etc. because they think that this particular modeling model (OMG, recurrence detected, stack overflow...
BuildStuff 2015 [http://buildstuff.lt/] is over, so is (almost) another season of conferencing. It has left me somewhat ambivalent about whether I'm up for more in 2016 - I've written about that after DevDay 2015 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/devday-2015-my-evolving-perspective-on-conferences/] already, so I'm...
You've heard about REPL [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop], didn't you? REPL stands for Read Eval Print Loop & it's a common name for platform/language-specific shells that give you the ability to do live programming...
Previous post in the series can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/how-i-got-myself-into-alchemy-part-i/]. Back to potion-mixing business then. I've decided to go for functional chemistry, but should you? Should your pals? Should everybody around because it's presumable The Next Big Thing? Alchemy for the masses...
The Formula IMHO tech skills are 10% talent + 20% engineering common-sense + 20% theoretical knowledge + 50% practical experience. If I've under-estimated any of these, it's most likely (still) the practical experience. Needless to say - it's not ANY practical experience. Going through tutorials on every...
