The technologies and ideas behind the buzzword — Software needs hardware to run on. For a long time, this meant that you have to buy hardware, ensure that the network connection keeps working, worry about power outages and device errors, and make sure the temperature is fine. You need to buy new machines when you get more customers…

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the world hard in 2020 and 2021. As if that wasn’t enough, we’ve experienced several products not being available. For me, that was the first time in my life. It feels weird — and in some cases frightening. Let’s explore what happened and why. A Timeline of Shortages We had…

Improve your software engineering skills — Every software developer with a little bit of experience knows that keeping things simple and stupid (KISS) makes sense. Once you have learned to use classes and functions, you don’t want to repeat yourself — keep things DRY. The goal of all of those principles is to make software easy…

We are caught in sub-optimal situations — In Machine Learning, you describe a problem and you try to find a model which solves that problem well. It’s very common that the model is stuck in a locally optimal solution — meaning tiny changes make the model worse… but big changes make it better. It’s pretty common to…

What happened in 2021 and what I expect for 2022 — It’s new years eve and — as always — I finish some things and have some plans for next year. Review of 2021 Oh man, what a year. 2021 was — again! — dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This came as a surprise to me as we’ve learned that masks are really useful…

It only starts at Junior vs Senior — The job market for Software Engineers is crazy at the moment — if you happen to be skilled, you can have your dream job. In this article, I want to shed some light on one aspect that is relevant when you consider which job to take: The Career Ladder. When…

The Good, the Bad, and the Crazy — The year 2021 started with Biden becoming president and the hope of more sane US politics. The Corona Virus pandemic hit the world hard, but we had various vaccines in the beginning of 2021. Stock markets plummeted in March 2020 and were recovering. People were looking for investment opportunities. A…

What it is, check if you are affected, what to do — Log4j is probably the most commonly used logging library for Java. It has a critical vulnerability which is trivial to exploit and allows remote code execution. It became public by a pull request #608 opened on Github on 30th of November 2021. As this is currently urgent, this article will…