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New comment by stana in "Beware Management Consultants"

stana — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:23:04 +0000

Major scandal in Australia was PwC secretly passing government secrets (tax changes consulting work) to private corporations [1]. And another one was KPMG passing secret client information to win contracts [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal [2] - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/10/kpmg-...

New comment by stana in "What I love about Django"

stana — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:16:37 +0000

There are a lot of things to like about Django. Remember being blown away when I discovered Django Content Types[1]. Basically generic foreign keys to any model type.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/contrib/contenttyp...

New comment by stana in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"

stana — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:16:43 +0000

Writing programs in C has simplified developer experience over Assembly. Issue with JS frameworks is that many find them complex, i.e. complexity has not been abstracted away (which should be goal of abstractions). Maybe DOM manipulation has, but many new complex ideas had to be introduced to achieve it.

New comment by stana in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

stana — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:57:10 +0000

I wonder if this could go down similar way some SaaS systems went to lower barrier to customisation so less technical users could do it. For example, having to interface with some ServiceNow instances I often find major flaws with db schema design - similar data in multiple places, lack of constraints, etc. Basically one big mess you are now stuck with that could have been avoided if a db expert was in charge of data model design.

New comment by stana in "I'm switching to Python and actually liking it"

stana — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:43:59 +0000

  API_KEY = os.environ.get("YOUTUBE_API_KEY")
  CHANNEL_ID = os.environ.get("YOUTUBE_CHANNEL_ID")

  assert(API_KEY, "Missing YOUTUBE_API_KEY")
  assert(CHANNEL_ID, "Missing CHANNEL_ID")

New comment by stana in "The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process"

stana — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:07:25 +0000

Would love to explore this in Python. But would it be correct to assume single process service would not be as performant due to GIL?

New comment by stana in "The Post-Developer Era"

stana — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:56:35 +0000

After some experience, starting to use a new programming language is not such a big challenge. Mastering the new language eco system is. AI might help you generate new code faster, but feel like crunching code has not been so much of an issue. Bigger picture system design, something that scales and is maintainable is the challenge.

New comment by stana in "Let's Ban Billboards"

stana — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:12:51 +0000

Advertising is out of control. Doing mundane things like filling up fuel at a petrol stations, or catching a lift at work - there is a little screen targeting you with ads.

New comment by stana in "Macrodata Refinement"

stana — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 02:50:20 +0000

Got introduced to Rufus Sewell in 'The Man in The High Castle'. He played an SS commander. Most intimidating and frightening presence on the screen - without raising his voice and no (direct) acts of violence. Great actor.

New comment by stana in "Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ"

stana — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:54:29 +0000

Isn't that Svelte?

New comment by stana in "Rails is better low code than low code"

stana — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 05:18:13 +0000

And not much mention of how you do releases and version control with low-code.

New comment by stana in "Rails is better low code than low code"

stana — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 05:03:18 +0000

Stuff like MS Power Apps. More traditionally MS Access. Basically drag and drop App builder - UI form builder, connectors to connect to public API-s and even store data.

New comment by stana in "Rails is better low code than low code"

stana — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:59:53 +0000

Point I was trying to make was that low-code is a lock-in IMO, and I would pick Ruby, Django, or whatever any day for no other reason than being able to modify/maintain/own code.

New comment by stana in "Rails is better low code than low code"

stana — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:18:19 +0000

Code is cost. Low-code is getting a vendor to generate code for you (cost again) and putting into a black box you can't access. i.e. lock in.

New comment by stana in "Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough"

stana — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:32:27 +0000

Interesting what you say about having to face some existential questions if you remove some ego enforcing ideas about yourself. Ernest Becker's book 'Denial of Death' suggests that this 'narrative' we have about ourselves is to deny our mortality, which we really got me thinking.

New comment by stana in "Accountability sinks"

stana — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 04:32:03 +0000

Interesting. Wonder sometimes how much of consulting business is motivated by accountability avoidance - "accountability sinks" for hire

New comment by stana in "AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world"

stana — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:20:17 +0000

Code generation was a thing for decades but there are still jobs writing CRUD based apps by hand.

New comment by stana in "AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world"

stana — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:06:36 +0000

This might help with building new software. But large part of the job is maintenance and changes. How long will next outage take to understand without people with deep understanding of the code.

New comment by stana in "Just for Fun (2022)"

stana — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:55:48 +0000

We are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires. That big project idea just around the corner...

New comment by stana in "CrowdStrike's impact on aviation"

stana — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:58:02 +0000

Rebranding project coming up at CrowdStrike?