On Training

It took me 4 months to get access to master. Two weeks later, I got access to the privileged user as well. Did this take too long? Should I have asked for more responsibility? It ultimately narrowed down to my experience and my team’s impact. | Continue reading


@why.degree | 2 years ago

On Interviews

I haven’t done interviews in a while, but the idea of interviews is constantly present in my mind. The #1 question almost no company seems to get right is “What would a perfect interview look like?” I suggest that a good approximation for software positions would be to evaluate t … | Continue reading


@why.degree | 2 years ago

On Progress

During the first couple of weeks of work, I was obsessed with getting tickets finished in the least number of days. To be completely honest, I actually counted the number of tickets I completed in a week and compared it to previous numbers. After bringing myself down one or two t … | Continue reading


@why.degree | 2 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News Leaderboard

Hacker News is a great community for all things technology. It’s the place where I spend most of my free time, always impressed by the various people I get to meet. And so, with the mandatory excuses for directing my attention to such earthly matters, I wanted to check which user … | Continue reading


@why.degree | 3 years ago

Junior What?

Technology evolved and developers can not understand everything anymore. So how does the world survive then? People specialise, that’s how! After you finish your degree, you don’t train to become a Computer Expert, but rather you focus on one area in particular: databases, securi … | Continue reading


@why.degree | 4 years ago

Next-Gen Devs

Young developers are different. They were taught to have Stack Overflow up all the time, to have a working environment set up in minutes and the firewall turned on by default. Taking this last example in consideration, I can attest that’s right. Until the Networks course, Windows … | Continue reading


@why.degree | 4 years ago

Tim Berners-Lee: Don't just study stuff, build stuff

Extending on the about page, I want to emphasise even more the importance of creating personal projects, having independent work and going far beyond what a degree might teach you. Just so that we are on the same page, I will not take into consideration the reason for choosing a … | Continue reading


@why.degree | 4 years ago