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In my work as a technical counsel in tech due diligence, I’ve looked at dozens of virtual data rooms (VDRs) in the last couple of years, in a variety of…

Like with SBOMs, another thing that appeared weirdly frequently in my work this year is the Secure Software (or System) Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)…

I’ll make this one quick: I turned on Plausible for this website.

Databricks recently published their reranker for Vector Search in RAGs.

I’ve been building development images for Glamorous Toolkit for many years, and I rarely work inside a regular released image.

Software Bills of Materials (SBOM) are something I rarely think about actively.

I’ve been writing a lot of Python code that does string templating lately.

I came across this link to a pattern album by Katsushika Hokusai, most well-known for his “Great Wave off Kanagawa” and his series of 36 “Views of Mount…

For a while now, one of my biggest responsibilities in Glamorous Toolkit has been to develop gt4llm, a workbench for large language models that is…

Looking back, most of my professional work, both in programming and leadership, seems simple, even trivial.

Much like last year, I gave a talk at ESUG again this year.

A few weeks ago, GitHub changed its home feed.

In a previous blog post, we looked at how to publish one of my blog posts from Glamorous Toolkit.

As most of my readers will probably know, at my day job, I help develop Glamorous Toolkit.

I find it hard to talk about the work that I’m doing at feenk, working on Glamorous Toolkit, in the “dead” medium of a blog post.

Dear M, We haven’t talked in so long.

First off I’d like to apologize for the scary title, but I didn’t have anything snappy at hand.

In case you’ve been avoiding the news or don’t live in the Global North: there is a war going on right now.

Since October, I’ve been working at feenk as a “DX crafter”—DX standing for “Developer Experience”.

A while back I had the opportunity to work with Common Lisp professionally.

es ist einfach, geliebtes zu vergessen: man sieht kurz weg und drückt ganz fest zu. dann, natürlich, verliert man die richtung wie einen gedanken, kurz…

I haven’t felt truly productive in a long time, not like I used to.

Turtle frowned.

Identity is a complex thing.

Tuala’s flipper-paws flapped in the water.

Turtle panicked.

“Does that seem right to you?”

Note: If you don’t feel the need to talk about blockchain things with everyone you meet, this blog post is probably not for you.

On the 2nd of May, 2021, my first child was born.

Last week I learned that you can adopt a Unicode character.

About 3 months ago, I woke up with an idea in my head: maps1, as they are often used in programming, are frozen computation.

There is one piece of advice that you get a lot when you go through the German school and university system, and it happens to be very bad.

About one and a half years ago, I wrote a blog post about a Carp macro that enables deriving interfaces for arbitrary types based on their members.

“Shnuff”, murmured Koala and scratched her nose with her paw.

Welcome (back) to the fourth installment of Carp Patterns, my series on how to structure Carp code!

This city is a swamp.

For a very long time, Carp didn’t have a mechanism for quasiquotation.

I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time helping companies establish their team culture and hiring pipelines for technologist positions lately, a…

About a week ago, I attended an all-hands meeting at a client of mine.

Turtle’s eyes widened.

The deep blue and green waters of the pond, reflecting the sun, lush trees and prickly shrubbery and undergrowth perfect for rolling around in it and…

It’s time for another post in my series on Carp patterns.

One of my goals for this year is improving my general fitness and health.

In the second installment of my series on my personal view on current best practices in Carp, we’re going to talk about testing!

I’ve had the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with Carp lately, and it has been very fun!

In a sequel to a video from earlier this week on lenses we’re going to look at how to extend our library to work with prisms, and find out what prisms are…

Today I want to try something a little bit different: I want to share a screencast with you!

One of my fellow Recurse Center alums shared a wonderful idea—which shouldn’t be a surprise, considering that the Recurse Center community is probably the…

As most of you will know, a lot of Europe is currently under lockdown, partly voluntarily, partly state-imposed.

Today I attended my great-grandmother’s wake.