I write here on random things. Most are passing thoughts, some might be software related.
I spent half of my day today figuring out why a WebView does not properly load menu on a web page properly while all the other functionality seems to be working as expected. The screen was written in Compose UI and employed AndroidView to compose an ...
Course https://learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/chatgpt-prompt-eng/lesson/1/introduction Contents Best practices Common use cases Types of LLMs Base Predicts next work based on text training data Instruction tuned Follows instructions; fine t...
How to improve negotiation skills Positions vs Interests Focus on interests instead of positions. Ask “Why?”. Why does a person want something so strongly. Show care by be understanding the other person. Be open, talk openly. This applies to both...
Link to Product leader John Cutler’s published article about software maintenance suggesting that software is more like gardening than car maintenance, quoted from Pragmatic Engineer’s paid article Bug management that works, Pt 1: “I've always been ...
I love John Crickett's coding challenges. They're (almost) bite sized challenges that can be done in a weekend and extended as much as you want to add more functionalities. I highly recommend you try some. I've been trying to do them during my weeken...
"Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three." - https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html I highly recommend reading the entire document. It outlines the various cases SQLite is tested for which makes it as reliable as it is to be able to make the above claim...
It is much easier to add features to reliable software, than it is to add reliability to featureful software. Going well will help you go far!
A quote by Mark Twain from the book "The art of thinking clearly" by Rolf Dobelli: "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; les we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will ne...