The Struggling Dev articles - 22 total
Documenting Decisions
Meetings are for decisions, and these decisions need to be documented. Decisions must be documented...
Managing To Dos in recurring meetings, when there's no agreed upon tool
Meetings often lead to to dos and tasks that need tracking. Especially when you're moderating a...
Hopefully Helpful Notes, Best Practices, ...
Thought I'll give quickie posts a try. But as it turns out, this is too large for a quickie post ;)....
MVP as an Excuse for Bad Code?
Introduction I've recently had a discussion about Minimum Valuable Products (MVPs) and...
A Take on Agile, Scrum, Lean and DevOps: Conclusion
Introduction This post has been sitting around as a draft for a long time. I was wondering...
(Game)Dev with Emacs - Because it's not Already Hard Enough Without it
Introduction This is another tale from down the rabbit hole. See Writing an Emacs Major...
Shadow Shader Experiments
Introduction After playing around with light and normal mapping, the next thing that comes...
Major Mode Comfort Functions, Because I'm Lazy
Introduction After creating a bare bones major mode for Emacs, there are some minor things...
Jergen gets Normal Mapped
Introduction In my last post I checked the art side - still struggling with the word art -...
Creating an Emacs major mode - because why not?
Introduction So, a while ago I've gone down the rabbit hole - and I don't intend to come...
Struggling Dev does Character Design
Motivation I'm currently playing around with a game (engine). I like that it has so many different...
Struggling Dev's sneaky Domain Driven Design
DDD has many benefits, but it's also "a lot" to digest. You have your Ubiquitous Language, Entities,...
Struggeling Dev Takes Notes
Why and how I take notes. At work I often have to switch tasks. I try to minimize task switches, but...
On Code Style Guides
A short post about why code style guides matter, and an easy way to create one. Why Code...
Intelligence is Dead
The advent of LLM tools like ChatGPT sparks many questions. Will these tools improve our lives, take...
AToASLDO - DevOps
Welcome to the last buzzword part of this series. Let's dive right in. Dev❤Ops DevOps is...
About On-Premises to Cloud/Microservices Transitions
This post mostly deals with situations where you have a medium to large (~ 1 million LoC) on premise...
A Short Intro to Thinking in Jetpack Compose
Disclaimer This is not an in-depth tutorial for Compose. I won't go over what dependencies you need...
AToASLDO - Lean Manufacturing & No DevOps
This post was supposed to be about lean manufacturing & DevOps and what their relation is....
A Take on Agile, Scrum, Lean and DevOps (Part One: Agile & Scrum)
In this series I want to write about Agile, Scrum, Lean and DevOps. Like it is the case with many...
Testing and Mocking EF6 Repositories
With Entity Framework Core you have the option to use an in-memory database for your unit tests. EF6...