- On cosmetics vs. intrinsics in programming
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A ruthless battle occurs every day on the World Wide Web. Its goal is to decide which programming flavor is the best: OOP or FP? I assume that imperative and procedural programming are not part of the contenders.
Arguments range from the factual to the irrelevant to the utterly stupid. A couple of years ago, I wanted to listen to a video of Martin Odersky (of Scala fame). I remember neither the exact talk nor the subject. What I remember is the introduction, though: he explained that FP was more popular than OOP… because there were many more conferences dedicated to the former than to the latter.
- Google Home hubs can now work locally thanks to Matter
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It’s definitely great, but I can’t stop thinking along the lines of the post’s conclusion:
the downside is if Google ever pulled the API access (as it did when it shut down its Works with Nest program), developers would be left high and dry.
- Claude vs. ChatGPT: What’s the difference?
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I’m using ChatGPT myself, but heard many good things about Claude. I wanted to see a comparison. Sadly, as Claude doesn’t generate images, I’ll keep on using ChatGPT.
- The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus
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Very interesting analysis. The tool is available to conduct it on your own repositories.
- Put your Kubernetes workloads to sleep using vCluster native sleep mode
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- I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
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OpenTelemetry is not complicated in itself. The post explains the problem: their product uses Spring Boot and Akka, and the latter is not compatible with OpenTelemetry. They had to be creative to solve the issue.
- SQL NULLs are Weird!
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Another puzzling example of the de facto standard not implementing the written standard.
- Double-keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web
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I wasn’t even remotely aware of this. Because the cache implementation changes in browsers, you might need to revisit how you structure your subdomains and perhaps your usage of CDNs.
- Chaos Engineering with Chaos Mesh and vCluster: Testing Close to Production
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I definitely must enlarge my testing toolbelt with Chaos Engineering.
- Python is the new BASIC
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I’ve slightly outgrown my hate of space-based blocks myself, even if I still think it’s not a great idea. After a failed attempt at Kotlin scripting, Python has become my scripting language default choice not only for projects maintained by my teams, but also for my personal ones.
- Why I deleted my social media accounts (and why you should too)
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I’m not at this stage yet, but I definitely have mostly stopped using Twitter, and I never had a Facebook account to start with.
I don’t think social media is bad per se, but it depends a lot on how you use it.
- Top 10 DevOps Tools You MUST Use in 2025!
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