It appears ChatGPT can be better than a Google Search these days, if only by a little.

Are “x10 engineers” engineers are myth or reality? And why?

Naming conventions are more than conventions: they have an impact on the readability and precision of code.

The tradition of using ASCII-only characters in code is deeply rooted, but perhaps it is time for it to go?

Log4Shell was a zero-day vulnerability of significant impact. Let’s try to recall the facts and figure out what factors may be resulting in such vulnerabilities coming into existence.

GC pauses introduce latencies but not every kind of latency has an impact on P&L. Analysing the impact of GC pauses on the profitability of trading and the merit of trying to avoid GC latencies at all costs.

Agile Software Development is tremendously popular and is seen as a universal virtue by many. It also clearly has value. But is it really a silver bullet or perhaps there are situations where it is unfit for purpose?

Reflections on the endless cycle of writing, using, abandoning, and re-writing essentially the same software again and again. Considering the cost of this cycle of wastefulness, the root causes of the phenomenon, and ways to avoid it.