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  • Lifesaving snippets

    Some snippets to make my life easier.

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  • Technical debt and vibe-coding

    When looking at a system as-it-is, my perspective remains: tech debt is the state of a system that captured the understanding of the problem when it was created and doesn’t fully reflect today’s understanding. The (obsolete) understanding applies to both functional and non-functional requirements, so it might be about the business, technical, scaling, or another…

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  • First online article on technical debt

    Ward Cunningham introduced the metaphor underlying the term technical debt in a 1992 experience report, where he described how his company incrementally extended a piece of financial software: Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. Objects make…

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  • Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software

    Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s. Source: Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software

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  • The Web We’ve (Never) Lost

    Posted on July 28, 2024 by Jan Vlnas Based on my talk for PragueJS meetup from February 2024 Source: The Web We’ve (Never) Lost

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  • Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers

    Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars This genre is at a great disadvantage, as any book that is older than a couple of months is already outdated or the mistery fully revealed when published.On the other hand,…

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  • Fahrenheit 451

    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury My rating: 5 of 5 stars A bleak vision of society where books are considered dangerous by the institutions, since it’s easier to rule a conformistic population. I read this long, long time ago and I always recalled the premise, but forgot about the reasons for burning the books. Unfortunately,…

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  • Kingdom Animalia

    What if animals would try the human race and our impact on the planet?   Welcome to the last days of humanity! Watch as our glorious species fights for its existence against dangerous, violent creatures who want nothing more than our total destruction! Even the cute animals don’t like us and that really hurts, you…

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  • The Three Oddest Words

    The Three Oddest Words When I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence,I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing,I make something no non-being can hold. Wisława Szymborska .. So beautiful.

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  • IcePanel: Design complex software systems

    Seems as an inovative way to document systems and make the knowledge transparent. –✁ Align on technical decisions across your software engineering and product teams

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  • Refresh: RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics

    The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document describes the overall architecture of HTTP, establishes common terminology, and defines aspects of the protocol that are shared by all versions. In this definition are core protocol elements, extensibility mechanisms, and the “http” and “https” Uniform Resource…

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