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Well... If your rocket ship is going down, don't ask which parachute.

On some level, you gotta give 'em credit for trying. A couple of years ago, they tried to recruit me into a platforms/SRE role for their consumer banking services. There seemed to …

Story time! Years ago, I was a contractor writing (a small piece of) software for DBS. It was probably a couple of hundred lines of Java, and I probably delivered it by emailing a …

The DBS UX is absolute garbage. Their android app is extremely slow, and is full of (probably?) iOS patterns. It's almost like they decided to implement their own cross-platform fr…

Classic innovator's dilemma. They're retreating up-market.

Yes you can! Accessibility gets abbreviated to a11y, which is about as inaccessible as it gets.

Calling tech debt maintenance seems a little odd. I've always understood tech debt to be the shortcuts we take along the way to ship fast(er). A global variable here, a hardcoded c…

I recently had to work around https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806329 by installing and selecting a specific (older) kernel. On affected versions, my wifi wouldn't come…

I've tried Eclipse Che (listed in the article), and it's pretty good. I'm looking forward to Che switching its editor to Eclipse Theia, which promises to be "the VS Code experience…

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This is a great headline for Tesla. The point isn't whether a Tesla could beat it in a real race, etc, this is just a "brand" moment for them.

At a previous company, we got burned using UUIDs as MySQL PKs. Turns out MySQL keeps data on disk sorted in PK order, so even a moderate INSERT workload would lead to lots IO and d…