Hammerings
Reflections on crappy workplaces and society at large. No muzzles.
There is a particular stage of a critical production incident when engineering stops being engineering and becomes theater. The application is failing.…
The last architecture tribunal I attended was about a critical application I wrote in AWS Lambda. The timing was excellent: the team had about a year to ask…
Software systems become harder to change as they grow. This is not controversial. What remains disputed is why. The conventional explanations are familiar:…
North American Institute of Digital Archaeology Department of Pre-Collapse Computational Cultures Field Season: 2140 Summary Excavation of Site AWS-4 has…
There is a young Dublin band called U2, and their singer, Bono, performs as though every lyric has been entrusted to him by a dying messenger. This becomes…
The Clash have made a very good record. This is going to make the rest of the review awkward. London Calling , newly arrived on these shores after its British…
Pretenders : Beautifully Wrong There is a point, after you have listened to enough records for a living, when music begins arriving pre-explained. You hear the…