Catchy Advice, Boring Advice

Mar 28, 2025

On the other day, I was reading a post on a social network where a person who went to an interview for the position of (junior) developer asked a question at the end of it: how one can become a senior developer. He was very impressed by the answer of the interviewer. The answer was,

You Are Using Old Technology

Jan 13, 2025

viewpoint may be largely unrelated to its usefulness. Many if not most of the software we use is probably obsolete according to the latest design criteria. Most users could probably care less if the internals of the operating system they use is obsolete. They are rightly more interested in its performance and capabilities at the user level. - Ken Thompson, The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate

The Law Of Complexity

Feb 4, 2024

Complexity never eliminate,
it just move from one place to another.

Article Worth of Content

Apr 22, 2023

I recently read a few books. After completing these books, I felt that the author is stretching the content by repeating the same idea again and again with different words, examples, and angles. What could have been covered in a concise article (or 4-5 pages) was extended into a full-length book. I noticed a similar pattern when reviewing an online course.

One-to-one Meeting

Jan 11, 2023

Sharing with you some meeting advice that I find useful and learn from others.