G’day, I’m Arie.
I’m a software engineer who likes to write. Maybe someday I’ll make sense of it all. I like coffee, cameras, computers, cycling, and running. How original!
On people and code quality.
My thoughts on this espresso machine after 18 months.
One day, several years ago, my manager and the CTO pulled me aside to tell me “The business has decided not to continue with your employment. We don’t have the processes or resources here to make you successful.”
Slop,
LinkedIn has become appreciably worse. Or perhaps it’s just my algorithm. You’ve probably noticed it already.
The most egregiously over-engineered solution I have ever been a part of.
Five years of remote work was too isolating.
I failed, then I didn’t. Here’s the solution.
Take luck out of the equation.
Long hours are okay, sometimes.
Renting isn’t as simple as the boomers claim.
This is not an interview, so I don’t have to be polite.
Even in the age of AI, you should still write code for humans.
Hugo Commenting Systems: A Comparison of Open-Source Options,
Which comment system should you use for your static site?
How we built our hackathon project with Anthropic Claude and AWS.
Getting a 50-year-old camera back into working order.
Property agents and UI dark patterns, together at last.
A quick article on how to avoid unsightly reflections.
How I’ve customised Neovim to my personal taste.
Implementing bulk actions into Deputy presents synchronisation challenges.
A double-edged sword for elevating your engineering practice with version control.
The challenge of implementing bitwise arithmetic in a high-level language without bitwise abstractions.
Personal projects from my high school and early university years that generated my first programming income.