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roccomathijnon Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

The man has been dead for 23 years

roccomathijnon Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?

> Reusing feature flags in a high frequency trading scenario

I think I read about this story

roccomathijnon Fair coins tend to land on the side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips

Let's abandon coin flipping in favour of coin shaking then

roccomathijnon Real time passive radar at home

Author gives a nice overview of the hardware and software setup on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF2n28qoTQM

roccomathijnon Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

I tried Firefly for a year but I could not find a nice workflow with it.

It was a maintainability nightmare. Needed to run 2 instances for my girlfriend and myself. A third instance I think for automatic imports from my bank.

Every 2/3 months whenever the integration with the Spectre API needed to be reauthorized another docker container had to be ran just to hit a reauthorize button. And then it was a battle with duplicate transactions which I could manage to fix but I could never make my girlfriend understand.

Then there was weird philosophy on incoming money in a category. Let's say you have a €200 diner with 3 friends. You pay the whole bill and get €150 back from your friends later. Firefly would tell you you spend €200 euros on restaurants instead of just €50.

Happily back to Ynab now.

roccomathijnon Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)

Norwegian coming up with a better translation than other native Dutch speakers.

roccomathijnon I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

Nobody used the word decoupling. They just went from being tightly coupled to being loosely coupled.