I was recently pushed out of my comfort zone by some young software dev. She pointed out that talking about code as a craft, like in software crafting, is a way to be a gatekeeper in tech. This is the kind of remark I like a lot, because it firmly […]
After more than 7 years of intense Event Storming usage, in different contexts and countries, I often had to face the same problem: “This map of our context is great, can we now start coding” ? I learn the hard way that trying to build software artifacts from the result […]
A recent article in a huge French paper creates lots of discussion in the tech community.In a nutshell, a French headhunter was complaining about the salary for developers, talking about salary up to 100k or 200k before 30 years old. In his opinion it was quite indecent, and developers should […]
Guess what I received a few weeks ago in my inmail? “On behalf of the European Space Agency, we wish to thank you for your application and interest in joining the European Astronaut Corps. We regret to inform you that after very careful consideration, it has been decided not to retain […]
If you read this blog as a software engineer, I apologize because for once I will not talk about software at all. I will talk about space, and me. I decided to talk about it because according to my twitter timeline, lots of people that might read this blog also […]
In all advices we receive as software programmer, one of the most misunderstood (just after don’t repeat yourself) is don’t reinvent the wheel.Of course, it seems pretty obvious that if we re-do everything all the time, the whole industry won’t evolve at all. But when we dig enough, it is […]
A few days ago I asked you to think about how to define your job as a software developer in a single sentence. This question is highly correlated to the question of what’s programming.That’s why an article on the matter was pointed to me on twitter in response to my […]
Because you’ll have many family’s meals in the upcoming days, it might be a good idea to train yourself in order to explain your developer job to the mere mortals in a single sentence. It may avoid the classical “can you fix my printer” or “can you check my wifi” […]
“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” You have probably already heard this famous quote by Kent Beck. It is one of the most insightful quotes I heard in my career, because it carries hope.Hope that you, me, anybody can become great by relying […]
As a software developer, you will probably have at least once a month a discussion about Functional Programming (FP) vs Oriented Object Programming (OOP). Of course, it’s always about the context, I already talked about it.But thanks to Samir Talwar, I had new insights recently on this topic that I […]