Category: Software Engineering
Satirical RCA Report: Power Outage at the NoBlame Corp.
On January 23rd, 2024, NoBlame Corp’s headquarters experienced a sudden power outage caused by a squirrel electrocution. The incident led to a 30-minute loss of electricity, disrupting employee productivity and resulting in the spoilage of a single frozen pizza. Emergency measures were taken, including calls to the power company and unsuccessful attempts to jump-start the…
Money : a bunch of ironies
For some reason, past few months (or years), I’ve been thinking and hearing a lot about and around money. Cryptocurrencies, stock market, taxation, inflation, deflation and what not! Definitely working from home (or rather not going out in the world) has been a huge factor, but a lot of credit goes to recent stocks/crypto trends.…
3 More things I learned about life as a Software Engineer
Note: This is an extension of the Pretentious series: 7 things I learned about life from my one-sided relationship with Software Engineering nobody asked for. Inability to build “a solution that works seamlessly forever” isn’t your fault Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not questioning your designing ability! It’s based on the fact that given enough time, everything…
Story of StackOverflow.com
Before 2004: Stackoverflow and many other related domains were owned by German company Mozquito Technologies during the late 90s. The owned domains included overflow.de, stackoverflow.com, mozquito.com, mozquito.org and many more. Mozquito mainly focused on building an engine/wrapper over the newly found XHTML. They aimed to build a suite (if we can call it that) to avoid all…
7 things I learnt about life from my one-sided relationship with Software Engineering
Think long term, but solve for the present. I think if you’re from the same background, you’d have heard the word over-engineering or overfitting (Data Science). I read as many articles and blogs on best engineering practices, new technologies, how to write good code before joining the first company. And, I worked on something where…