Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - Textualize/rich

Here’s a list of reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance, assuming that your application doesn’t actually need all the columns. When I write production code, I explicitly specify the columns of interest in the select-list (projection), not only for…

Sure, we
all pretend to know them, but rarely do we think they
apply to us. Your manager certainly doesn't...

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Bob Martin is also known as Uncle Bob. He is an Agile Manifesto author, and author of books on Agile Programming, XP, UML, Object Oriented Programming, and C++.

Jim Coplien is a software pioneer in Object…

What We Talk about When We Talk about Performance.

This article will help you learn how Entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, makes life increasingly more complicated. Understanding entroy will supercharge how and where you apply your energy.

This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.

Ten. Million. Dollars.

Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.

That’s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.

Here’s what happened…

We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.

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Over the years many people have complained about the so-called “religiosity” of some of the proponents of Test Driven Development. The recent brouhaha over TDD has, once again, brought these complaints to the fore. So I thought it would be a good idea to…

I should have written this article two years ago, just after I published Product vs. Feature Teams. I suspected then that I should follow up that article highlighting the difference between product and project teams, but in truth I fell victim to wishful…

TL;DR: This article provides an overview on several ideas I have been exploring on how Sociotechnical Architecture and Systems Thinking are key to enabling achieving the goals of Product thinking: "maximize the value exchange with the customer, continuously…

I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or…

Thierry de Pauw: consulting CTO - IT Delivery Consultant - IT Engineer - Conway’s three other laws

Many organizations have limited awareness about modern software and technology, even though software is essential for them. Use the Clueful Index to separate the clueless organizations from the clu...