Michaelpedia Galactica

Remember when Netflix was good?

Planning problem Planning poker is a method for sizing tickets.

The Pareto principle is a generic observational rule that says that you typically get 80% of the consequences from 20% of the effort.

Is software development an art form or an industrial task?

Vernissage is the winner of my evaluation of self-hosted image galleries.

WordPress is no longer a viable platform for anybody.

One of the hardest things to do, psychologically, is admitting you were wrong.

Over on the Fediverse, a friend posted a poll about how much AI IT systems should have.

I've been publishing on the internet for a long time, and during this time, I have used many different kinds of publishing software.

Honey is a browser extension owned by PayPal, which applies coupons to shopping carts on checkout.

Algorithms are step-by-step instructions that allow computers to perform their tasks.

Some time ago, I wrote about the Cerbos authorization server, a tool that externalizes the authorization the same way an SSO like Keycloak externalizes authentication.

In psychology, there's a famous experiment performed by Ellen Langer called the Xerox experiment.

We have increased emotional response to a picture the more it resembles a human person.

WordPress has for a while been one of the most popular CMSes for both personal and corporate sites.