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  • Lifesaving snippets

    Some snippets to make my life easier.

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  • Spectacular image of Earth

    The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon. Source: Artemis II crew now halfway to Moon as they take ‘spectacular’ image of Earth

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  • What is Culture?

    As I am often in contact with people from all around the world, sometimes I am asking myself: what makes a “culture” – geography, history, language, politics, belief system? I can in principle agree with the Wikipedia definition (a bit convoluted though)… Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found…

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  • “Recursion” by Blake Crouch

    Recursion by Blake Crouch My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quite original idea on time-travel and paradoxes involved, wrapped in an action filled thriller. View all my reviews

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  • Technical debt and vibe-coding

    When looking at any 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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  • Simple Sabotage for Software

    Too funny 🤣 Let’s say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught. You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you’d get fired quickly. The real goal here is to sap the company…

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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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