Tag: opinion
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What Programming will Look Like in 2028
By 2028, I imagine we’ll be looking at the UI of the final product and asking for changes directly from an agent that will be embedded into it as a ‘dev listener.’ Things will be developed on demand, tested, and then ‘activated.’ There will be no pushing to a repo. Repos and staging environments (CI)…
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Will “SaaS” Mean Anything in 5 Years?
I have this feeling that legislators will go absolutely anal control-freak in the coming years, creating all sorts of complexities and bureaucracies imaginable, affecting all industries at once. It will be very hard for the average person or entrepreneur to build a consistent tech solution by themselves—and, especially, to keep that solution running bug-free in…
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Start as Early as Possible
by Brivael Every single one of the brightest people I’ve run into over the last few years realized the exact same thing at the exact same time: the degree system is a Ponzi scheme. The sequence is always identical. They get into a top school. Within six months, they realize that what they’re being taught…
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Dune Part III (expectations)
I finished re-reading the second book of the Dune Chronicles, Messiah, last night and I have mixed feelings about the coming movie “Dune Part III” later this year. I have seen its trailer on YouTube and some cuts from interviews with Denis Villeneuve claiming with all the words that part 3 is the zenith, the…
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UnFUDding SQLite for Web Development
One can safely assure that there are 4 things that keep human life possible on planet Earth: SQLite is this open-source ubiquitous small footprint database used by mostly every digital device on the planet. It’s everywhere: phones, TVs, billboard displays, navigation systems… you name it. However, despite its long time world wide adoption by virtually…
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So You Want a PDF
Just “Print to PDF” it. I’m no longer implementing this long flow with tons of work on each hop. Instead, I’m just formatting the data from the user’s request and then will place a nice “Print to PDF” button on top. A modern web browser will be happy to take this incredibly complex piece of…
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MVP, Technical Debt and Rebuids
I no longer believe in the idea of building a half-baked MVP in order to launch it faster. The cost of rebuilding is disturbing to me. Rebuilds often happen with the main product live in production, which of course generate ongoing support and run of the mill operations. Chances are that the rebuild and operations…
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MVC
The MVC is a design pattern. Yes, it is. At the most fundamental level, in my experience, is like the artist positioning the canvas at a certain distance, holding the palette and the brushes. Having all those elements at hand ready to be used with consistency across the entire work process. From this point onward,…