Privacy Enhancing Technologies: An Introduction for Technologists
Making data open and available to all helps us all understand our world and are thus better informed to shape the policies to run it. But such openness does come…
Dependency Composition
Developers commonly ask “what framework should we use for dependency injection”. Daniel Somerfield explains why this is the wrong question, instead we should focus how to have clearly separated modules…
Emacs xref stopped working on Macs with dumb-jump
Recently I found that xref in Emacs had stopped working for me on my mac laptop. Today I finally tried to figure out what went wrong. xref is just a…
Using ChatGPT as a technical writing assistant
My colleague Mike Mason is an experienced software developer and architect. He’s also an skillful writer, with a couple of books under his belt together with plenty of writing for…
What Does a Technical Author Look Like?
While working with my colleague Mike Mason on a forthcoming article, we asked Stable Diffusion to come up with portraits of technical authors. We thought the results were worth sharing….
An example of LLM prompting for programming
A couple of weeks ago I watched a fascinating Zoom call hosted by Xu Hao, Thoughtworks’s Head of Technology in China. He showed an example of how he uses ChatGPT…
Slack in your plans
Recent discussions with my colleagues showed that many software teams still run into trouble because they pack too much planned work into their iterations. Teams will usually run better when…
Brass Birmingham becomes #1 on BoardGameGeek
A couple of weeks ago Brass Birmingham became the 8th game to top the ratings on BoardGameGeek – here’s why I like it so much more… Source: martinfowler
Shaky Twitter Two-Factor Authentication Interaction
Accessing Twitter this morning, I was greeted with a prompt saying that they were getting rid of text messages as a form of two-factor authentication unless you subscribed to Twitter…