During the past years, I’ve interviewed a lot of developers, technical leaders, and CTOs. There are a few key things I’ve learned about hiring a good CTO for your startup. Does every successful technical team need a Chief Technology Officer at one point in time? What are the...
Every time I work on code with someone I haven’t worked with before, I end up having the same conversation. It usually starts when I push my first pull request and they see something like +20/-40 in a single file using 11 commits. When I tell people that...
This is a follow-up article on Machine Learning, Part 2. Have you read the introduction to Machine Learning (Part 1) already? The next thing I wanted to learn in my journey was to make a neural network recognize the digits in this picture. It’s a very well-known problem, and...
I’ve always been fascinated by science fiction and the advances of technology. And AI/ML has often represented a huge chunk of that because, for me, it’s the closest way that I, as a single person, can create life and feel like a god. And that’s really...
This post is part 3 of the “Building an SDK with PHP” series. Read Part 1 and Part 2 In our last article we’ve looked at how we can make our SDK configurable and today we’ll apply this to cover our SDK with several unit tests. What should...
This post is part of the “Building an SDK with PHP” series. Read Part 1: building an SDK. If you’ve followed along with the last post you have created a SDK in PHP while leveraging various PSRs such as PSR-17 and PSR-18. Today we’ll take this a step...
A little over ten years ago, I felt so annoyed with testing Apache’s mod_rewrite RewriteRules that I started looking for a tool to test them. The search was unsuccessful— no such tool to be found. https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/ Out of my frustration, I decided to write something...
Chunking up our code No matter how smart or intelligent we are, when things become too complex, we can no longer keep them in our brain completely. I recently saw this tweet from Kent Beck that makes a lot of sense. The goal of software design is to create chunks...
We see teams blindly following Scrum, Kanban, or the Spotify model and introducing roles into teams (such as a Site Reliability Engineer) because other companies blogged about it. These models and roles are created because of specific struggles these companies faced. While all these processes thus contain valid solutions to...
