September 2023, I knew I was in for a wild ride when I won this contract. I already coached other developers in a commercial setting, and I understood what was asked …

This is a follow-up on the follow up of release rodeo. Okay, I should stop doing these, however, I thought the situation was a bit too ironic not to record. On my final week working for that company ¹, the product manager …

This is a follow-up on the release rodeo.

After I wrote that blog post, the CTO found it quickly by coincidence. He was quite okay with everything I had written. However, he took issue with that I called his critique “scolding”. I suppose he didn’t exactly scold me. I …

In the beginning, there was nothing. We merged completed features after a month or so of development, leading to large PRs and often unexpected implementations. Then, feature flags were introduced. This allowed the merging of code in chunks, enabling QA to test …

Recently I encountered some dubious error handling code. Not only was it failing, it was failing WRONG ¹. This frustrates me because doing failing correctly in Haskell is quite easy, so why was it implemented wrongly? I believe no-one has addressed failing with an opinion. Plenty of people describe the …

Over the past few years I’ve started using git as a template management tool¹. For example, I clone my haskell template project, edit the names, edit the readme end re-setup the remotes:

git remote add template git@github.com:jappeace/haskell-template-project.git
git remote set-url origin git@github …

Recently quite a few changes have happened within Jappies’ life. First of all, he is no longer at OpenLearning. This relationship ended at the end of February. March was used for job searching. To help with this a proper portfolio was constructed. Last week there were three interviews with Daisee …

Unfortunately Jesiska couldn’t make it to Australia in time for Christmas. Therefore I decided basically last week to go to Jakarta instead! I personally don’t care much about Christmas, but I thought the office would be closed during this time. (Many companies close in the Netherlands for sure …

I’ve been living in Australia for well over a month now and I really enjoy it! The first two weeks were quite a wild ride, looking for my first job and finding a permanent place to stay.

I had 3 interviews appointments prepared before arriving. I finished them in …

Last Wednesday I started my first job at Open Learning. It has been interesting, I know for a fact I contributed almost nothing to the company up to this point. This is to be expected according to reddit since it’s the first week. I did ask a lot of …