Predictions for the year 2023

Over the past few years, I worked with over half a dozen teams claiming to be agile and implement some version of Scrum.Over the past few years, I worked with over half a dozen teams claiming to be agile and implement some version of Scrum. Even though on paper they were all doing some form of Scrum, in practice, my experience varied wildly from one team to another. It’s almost as if the term “agile” has become meaningless.Even though on paper they were all doing some form of Scrum, in practice, my experience varied wildly from one team to another. It’s almost as if the term “agile” has become meaningless. This isn’t a rant against Scrum and agile but rather a semi-structured, subjective review of what I think works well and what doesn’t.This isn’t a rant against Scrum and agile but rather a semi-structured, subjective review of what I think works well and what doesn’t.

I used to be a big fan of Spotify. Today I cancelled my subscription.

Maybe don't listen to that guy on HN that tells you to rewrite your SPA in jQuery...

In the recent few weeks, like millions of people, I jumped on the Mastodon bandwagon. After over a decade on Twitter, I was ready for something else. And Musk’s clown-show gave me the push I needed to do a leap of faith.

As a web developer, I haven't thought much about binary and bitwise operations since early school days. I just didn't see a place where shifting or XOR'ing bits would fit in my CRUD apps. That was until I stumbled upon a trick that would save me a lot of headache.