The recurring theme of the disappearing developer … Now it’s the undergraduate students and junior devs who are getting targeted. From low-code, no-code, ADF to outsourcing, from time to time crops up some “innovative” way to replace lots if not almost all of those pesky devs that take just too much time to churn out the stuff we want from them. Didn’t work out so well each and every time. It won’t work this time either.

BDD, MDD, TDD und andere DDs haben mir und den Teams, mit denen ich gute Software bauen konnte, nicht besonders viel gebracht oder wurden gar nicht erst eingesetzt. Domain Driven Design nehme ich hier raus, dazu gleich mehr.

This is for when you get stuck with an abomination of an editor called vi. No sophisticated vi-foo here, this is just the basics that get you covered for simple editing of files.

It’s been a while since I have checked what is going on in the development of CI/CD servers. I’ve worked extensively with Bamboo and TeamCity, and have a fair amount of exposure to GitLab and GitHub. Time for a quick survey.

If I tell people that I don’t to use AI tools for coding or my site, I see incredulous looks and get remarks from which I conclude that people see me in the backwards camp. I use the following rule that has proven itself in science, when I evaluate new tools and techniques: the more outrageous the claim, the more convincing the arguments for supporting it must be. Some simple tests should prove the claim or at least make the tool or technique look very promising.