Frederick Vanbrabant

@MaybeFrederick
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đź’» Head of Architecture Deloitte Belgium
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“What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?” — Douglas Adams

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession, but the act of getting there which generates the greatest satisfaction.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss

“You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program” — Alan Perlis (of course)

Why I don’t use #LLMs for #programming …

After reading a discussion yesterday from @heiglandreas about #Laravel and how they now promote themselves as an agentic framework, I've started looking up other frameworks. None of them promote them like that. Even #bun that's bought by Antropic, doesn't promote themselves like that.

I've migrated my desktop pc (mainly for gaming and heavy workloads) from Windows to Pop!_OS a few months ago and it's so much better. That being said, I still have minor issues with the desktop env and I'd rather use GNOME.

Was thinking of using Fedora moving forward as I want something very stable with long term support and maturity.

Got a new sportswatch (only for running). Just did my first run yesterday. Was a nightmare. Super slow and I was amazed how long that 5KM run took.

The watch was still in miles.

A few days ago I wrote about system think in Enterprise architecture. An important tool in strategy and architecture itself.

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-02-20-systems-thinking-in-enterprise-architecture/

#systemsthinking #strategy #enterprisearchitecture

Systems Thinking in Enterprise Architecture

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

After a bit of time on both Mastodon and BlueSky I seem to really prefer Mastodon. There seem to be more people I’m interested in on BlueSky, but it also feels more as a marketing thing (like Twitter before the takeover). Mastodon feels more like very early Twitter.
"Can you make the architecture diagram a bit more complex? The project is complex and it would be nice if the diagrams reflected that."
The middle ground between canonical models and data mesh

Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

Going to give Mastodon another shot. Is there a better way to know who to follow than to stalk profiles you know?