When James Patterson, one of the best-selling authors in the world, had the idea for “Honeymoon,” his 2005 novel, he started writing an outline.

You will outlive IDEs. At some point you’ll find them bloated, slow, clunky.

From 2013 to 2019 I lived in a small town, thirty minutes north of Zürich by train, called Schaffhausen.

In November 2015 I attended the DO iOS conference in Amsterdam.

I have had the tremendous chance of working with incredible programmers through the ages.

Programming is a very opinionated activity. Unfortunately, those opinions are seldom based on facts, and most of them are futile, and lead to stupid arguments on Reddit or Hacker News or the comments section of a blog.

Something very big happened during the last 20 years: The Agile Invasion™®©.

As the taxi rushed away from my old home along Avenida del Libertador, I looked through the rear windshield for one last time.

Once upon a time, there was a programming environment made by Microsoft called Visual J++.

In 2002 I moved back to Switzerland, and found a first job as a developer in a company making a super expensive product nobody needed.