onor.io: Posts tagged 'SoftwareEngineering'

Rental Culture

Onorio Catenacci — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:16:09 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:45:55 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:24:48 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:04:21 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:32:06 UT

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

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Modeling And Software Development

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:25:08 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:05:31 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:48:33 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:17:42 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:17:08 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:22:17 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:50:08 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:09:01 UT

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

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Exercise 58 HtDP

Onorio Catenacci — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:59:14 UT

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

Onorio Catenacci — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:31:36 UT

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

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Another Exercise From HTDP

Onorio Catenacci — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:46:08 UT

Another exercise from Chapter 1 of How to Design Programs.

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Some Exercises From HtDP

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:21:18 UT

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

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Speaking

Onorio Catenacci — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:28:03 UT

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

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Where I'm Going

Onorio Catenacci — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:38:50 UT

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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