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Hitting Earth

 

Roughing up the atmosphere

 

RegEx at Stone Age

 

Arrested for deep seeking

 

The Fosbury Flop

The Fosbury Flop & the Dunning-Kruger EffectWhen Richard Fosbury surprised the audience with a new world-record in high jump at the Olympic Games in Mexico, I was just about 1 year old. Too young to understand what he achieved. I learnt about him l…

Fatal exception – or how to get rid of errors

Dave, a good friend,  sent me a WhatsApp message and made fun of a software that– when put
under load – did not properly log invalid login attempts.
All he could see was “error:0” or “error:null” in the log-file.
 This reminded me to a simil…

Leaving Springfield

 

The Birthday Paradox – and how the use of AI helped resolving a bug

While
working / testing a new web based solution to replace the current fat client, I
was assigned an an interesting customer problem report.

The
customer claimed that since the deployment of the new application, they noticed
at least 2 incidents per…

Bug’s survival strategy

 

Astronomy for developers