Current Affairs

At the adaptTo() conference, Berlin, September 2019
Foundational vs. application software: two worlds?
The Power of Simplicity - my first time at DevOpsDays
Banning AI? How about synthesizers and drum machines?
Surviving large mailing lists in 2024
VanillaJS & the Web Platform, a match made in heaven?

VOTD - Video Of The Day

The Power of Simplicity - crafting durable software

At DevOpsDays Zürich 2025, on simplicity in software design. Also available in English elsewhere on this page.

There's more videos of my talks and interviews on the pressbook page.

Favorite posts

Here's a list of my 50 favorite posts. Milestones, writings that I'm proud of, etc., going all the way back to the early 2000s, when I started my first tech blog.

Foundational vs. application software: two worlds?
The Power of Simplicity - my first time at DevOpsDays
Banning AI? How about synthesizers and drum machines?
Surviving large mailing lists in 2024
From one Devoxx to the next: async decisions & distributed teams
VanillaJS & the Web Platform, a match made in heaven?
Any custom HTML elements on this page?
Teaching programming: Sonic Pi for the win!
WW;SW : Well Written, Subtly Wrong !
SSL/TLS certificates with Let's Encrypt
How to record decent conference videos - without breaking the bank!
Rules For Revolutionaries (2000 edition)
Would you hire an open source developer?
Great software is like a great music teacher
Open source is done. Welcome to Open Development!
Status meetings are a waste of time and money
Large Mailing Lists Survival Guide
Apache: lean and mean, durable, fun!
Shared neurons and the Shadok's First Law of Failure
Merry Christmas avec la Soupe a la Bière a Roger!
On speaking in URLs
Can I haz web?
What Makes Apache Tick?
R.I.P. Randy Pausch
It just doesn't matter
richandstupid.com
Mailing lists netiquette