onor.io: Posts tagged 'SoftwareEngineering'

Rental Culture

2026-07-29T14:16:09Z

IP Owners have more and more promoted a rental culture in terms of IP. AI is just the latest manifestation of “you don’t really own this—we just let you rent it.”

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A Socratic Approach To Interviewing

2026-04-17T15:45:55Z

The “socratic approach” to teaching is to ask students pointed questions to lead students to discover things for themselves by thinking about the question and its possible answers. Could we adopt this approach to screening technical candidates? If so would it help us to better discover good technical candidates?

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The Audible Gasp

2026-02-09T16:24:48Z

While it may be absolutely great to be surprised by an audience reaction while performing a theatrical production, being surprised by something happening in production is not great. How can we avoid the “audible gasp” moment in our code?

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Gitpod Impresses

2025-10-17T15:04:21Z

I would consider myself a skeptic when it comes to vibe coding and the use of LLM’s. But credit where it’s due. Gitpod did a good job of slapping together a small, simple Elixir app.

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Why Feedback Matters

2025-09-23T21:32:06Z

Feedback is often underestimated. As the task gets more complex, feedback becomes more and more important.

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Modeling And Software Development

2025-09-09T13:25:08Z

A brief discussion of some obvious observations that are routinely forgotten. We’re dealing with models and we’re not all dealing with the same models.

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The Essence Of Agility

2025-08-04T16:05:31Z

I am afraid that more and more people are following the outline of agile without understanding WHY the practices are important. It’s becoming a sort of cargo cult science situation.

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Doctors Don't Do Side Projects

2025-07-03T13:48:33Z

A few people when discussing side work by developers trot out the argument “No one asks a surgeon if he or she does side work!” This argument is flawed in a few major ways.

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Codeberg and Reinventing A Wheel

2025-03-04T21:17:42Z

I decided to give Codeberg a whirl. I also decided to create a binary tree implementation in Rust to practice my Rust skills a bit.

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Speaking at MITechCon

2025-02-21T16:17:08Z

Due to the inability of a previously invited speaker to attend, I’m filling in at MITechCon for a session.

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Appearance On A Podcast

2025-02-11T14:22:17Z

In spite of lots of good advice to the contrary, rather than keeping my mouth closed and being thought a fool I opened it and removed any doubt.

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Exercises 80 and 81 From How To Design Programs

2025-01-28T20:50:08Z

My responses for Exercises 80 and 81 (Chapter 5.8) of How to Design Programs

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Exercise 72 From How To Design Programs

2025-01-23T19:09:01Z

My response for Exercises 72 and 73 (Chapter 5.6) of How to Design Programs

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Exercise 58 HtDP

2025-01-20T20:59:14Z

My answers for the exercises in Chapter 4.6 Exercise 58 of How to Design Programs.

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Exercises for Chapter 2.1 HTDP

2025-01-13T17:31:36Z

My answers for the exercises in Chapter 2 Section 1 of How to Design Programs.

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Another Exercise From HTDP

2025-01-10T16:46:08Z

Another exercise from Chapter 1 of How to Design Programs.

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Some Exercises From HtDP

2025-01-07T18:21:18Z

Working through How To Design Programs; here’s my first crack at one of the first exercises!

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Speaking

2024-12-24T14:28:03Z

I’m going to be speaking at Ann Arbor Tech Convergence. You should attend!

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Where I'm Going

2024-12-05T15:38:50Z

There are a few things in terms of technology that I’ve had my eye upon. I’d like to share some thoughts with you for whatever it’s worth.

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