Feeling trapped in a US cloud? — Common modernisation pitfalls
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article to you (a non-developer) who is responsible for a core system running in a US cloud. It provided some guidance on how to proceed. Today, I will...
An old story I want to share
This is me repeating a story from memory I read 30 years ago in a magazine. I’m afraid I have no references, but I like the story a lot so I’d like it to live on.
Feeling trapped in a US cloud? - It’s time to take action
Dear person who is not in the community of software developers but is, in one way or another, responsible for your organisation’s most important system running in a US cloud. Th...
Surprise-Driven Sharing, yet again
In the second part of “Surprise-Driven Sharing (SDS)” I wrote about how surprising I find it when people say things like “Once we finish this final feature, we are done!” when t...Surprise-Driven Sharing, again
The other day, I started a small series of texts about having a strong and internalized viewpoint about something you’ve spent your whole work life on, and suddenly noticing tha...
Welcome to my new old website!
It was sooo overdue! I think it’s reasonable to modernize websites every 20 years. I failed at that. My old website had looked the same since I started blogging in 2003 and, tr...