Hi, how are you? If you are reading this, chances are you’re looking for a job, and a bit stressed. It’s hard; especially in those tumultuous times. The good news is that you are doing the legwork to get better at having interviews, those things tend to pay off. …

They say that penguins are pretty smart. They live in the harsh environment of Antarctica, and they can’t really afford silliness. They mostly bundle up together, they travel well beaten paths across the continent, and they try to repeat what others do to keep themselves alive. …

So, hello again. This is the second part to the theory of constraints stories I have to tell. This time I am going to talk about randomness, and how it affects the best laid plans. …

This is going to be a slightly different article than my usual technology stories. It’s going to be weirdly about project management in software organisations. …

Ohi, this is a write up of my attempt to make a genetic algorithm to run on AWS lambda serverless architecture. A bit of what, why, and how if you will. You can find all the code of this project over here. …

I grew up deep in Siberian woods. I miss thick heavy forests and cold air. In there, in the mids of a winter, all the moisture in the air freezes out and falls. And so when you go out at night, and the new moon is a barely visible sickle…

It is tempting to start this article with the classical “i wanted to write this for so long”, but the truth is, pretty much every single software developer on this planet did; many multiple times throughout their careers. The problem of choosing a programming language is as old as programming…

In software engineering we love talking about technical debt. The problem is though, it is often used as a scapegoat for frustration and bad decisions. Talk to 3 technical leads and 2.5 of them will tell you that you should not have any technical debt what so ever, or have…

Once upon a time I wasn’t in software development. One of my first real jobs was a lathe operator in a large mechanical shop. For a year all i did i was making nuts, bolts and washers. …