Blog
2024
The “Growth Mindset” and Secondary Research
A pseudo-scientific concept changing Microsoft’s company culture
Is Software Engineering “Real” Engineering?
And does it really matter?
Software Engineering Research Adoption Cycle
Are we always (too) late to the game?
Leaky Abstractions and GenAI
Impact of GenAI on learning
Applicability of Software Engineering Research
Context, constraints, and assumptions
Hallucinations and GenAI for Code
Sometimes it’s better to say “I don’t know”
White House Report on Memory- and Type-Safety
In parts too absolute, better foster evidence-based decision marking
2020
Pandemic, Parent, new Position
How my life completely changed within four months
2019
Sampling Papers Using DBLP
A simple web scraper for journals and conference proceedings
2018
Constructing Urban Tourism Space Digitally
A study of Airbnb listings in two Berlin neighborhoods
Software Development Expertise
A conceptual theory
Edit and Comment History of Stack Overflow Threads
Retrieval using the SOTorrent dataset
Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts
Building the SOTorrent dataset
2017
Stack Overflow Code Snippets
Usage, attribution, and implications