What nobody will tell you about JSON

What follows is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at App Builders Zürich in July 2016. I have arranged the content in a different way and omitted some parts to make the written version more coherent. The slides are also available in PDF.

Becoming a better writer

“Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire” is the title of an article written by Giles Bowkett that caught my attention a few months ago. Among all the topics discussed, he suggests that the Agile Manifesto principle about face-to-face communication “might be to blame” for inspiring Scrum’s daily stand-up.

Design weaknesses of GitFlow

I started using GitFlow more or less two years after Vincent Driessen introduced his proposal in 2010. Since then, there has been many times in which either me or another fellow developer has faced some issues with it.

My attempt to learn Haskell

A lot of attention was brought into functional programming when Swift was announced in WWDC 2014. That wasn’t really new. Bringing these concepts to your day-to-day programming has been a trend in general. But within the Apple ecosystem in particular, Swift made everyone take it more seriously.

The real value of fastlane

I was not particularly excited when fastlane started to get attention from the community. I agreed it was a cool project, but it was not solving any actual problem I had.