Sixth Century Agile Manifesto
February 08, 2021Given that I call myself a “lay Benedictine”, and that my Twitter bio states exactly that, there’s been conspicuously little written on…
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Given that I call myself a “lay Benedictine”, and that my Twitter bio states exactly that, there’s been conspicuously little written on…
In the beginning, programmers invented code. But businesspeople found code too complex, and they wanted something simpler. So programmers…
Imagine the situation — a group of friends, some programmers, perhaps one salesman and one artist, venture together to found a company for a…
There’s a story quite early on in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance about the Sutherland couple, who represent the ”romantic” and…
Six years ago Mike Kozlowski wrote one of my favourite articles on the Internet about Vim and approached the subject from a completely…
The trope namer for the “Matthew effect” is a verse from the Bible. It’s been ripped out of context and appropriated by economists, social…
By this point everyone invested in React should be familiar with hooks. Thanks to hooks we don’t really need to use class components anymore…
If you’ve ever attended a history class where I’m from you will recognise this familiar diagram. Krzyżanowski sinusoid This is known as the…
Languages are a powerful tool. Nowadays you might think that with mastery of English you can conquer the world, but it is not so. There are…
We continue our journey of exploring gumption traps. In part one we talked about setbacks — external traps that cause our gumption, the…
There’s a popular children’s game in Poland known as the tomato game. It’s very simple in its premise. You need two or more people. From…
Programming has become somewhat of a unicorn lately. It’s an interesting discipline, a very versatile one and, what’s most important to many…
Last time we talked about the first type of gumption traps - setbacks. Setbacks are external issues that occur when the relationship between…
The first rule of the Dunning Kruger club is that you have no idea that you have joined it.
“Gumption traps” are a term introduced by Robert M. Pirsig in Chapter 26 of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as a detail of his…
Today I would like to talk briefly about the three ways that we generally acquire knowledge and arrive at conclusions. The three ways under…
The work of a programmer is much like the work of a sculptor. We are placed in front of a computer with a programming language out of which…
The most accurate critique of rational thinking is not in the Bible. It’s not in the works of Kant or any other empiricist philosopher. It…
The best open-source libraries and frameworks are those which solve a real world problem. This was indeed the case with . A simple idea from…
Reading is the single most effective way of self-investment there is. Picking the correct books and reading them comprehensively can rapidly…
An look into how we can make web applications more customizable.