Rantanen@mastodon.social - Software Engineer. Ux. He/Him.
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James Rantanen retweeted
when someone confidently says "we need to rewrite the whole thing from scratch", what they mean is "i don't know how to read and navigate this".
look for the person who tells you how to rewrite parts of it without breaking the running system. they'll be quiet and sound unsure
James Rantanen retweeted
Good devs are curious: they explore context before they get to work.
None of that happened, under the assumption that “I’m so smart, I can figure everything out on my own, quickly.” You see this a lot with junior devs or folks who haven't had to maintain large systems over time
James Rantanen retweeted
Laughter diffuses tension.
You can have that tough architecture discussion, and then laugh together and it reduces stress.
Job satisfaction is the #1 predictor of organizational performance. (these things happen together)
@holly_cummins #YowLondon
James Rantanen retweeted
18 songs that display Mimi Parker as the beating heart of @lowtheband
We remember the musician's eternal qualities through some of her most memorable performances
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Tech industry forgot that A/B tests and metrics are not product vision or the end goal.
If the vision is to be virtual public town square or whatever it makes sense to change direction. You are not going get there with a/b micro-optimizations.
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Software tends to favor additive, bolted on, isolated feature development over integrated, interconnected, holistic improvement. Because the former is fast and scalable and the latter is slow and demanding.
I'd wait a few more years for something that "makes our hearts sing."
James Rantanen retweeted
I hope that's just a blip and nothing to worry about and that Steve's philosophy still applies, because there aren't many companies that are remotely interested in doing this in the first place:
youtube.com/watch?v=KlI1MR-q…
(I am worried though.)
James Rantanen retweeted
The “designer” and “engineer” labels don’t always apply so neatly. My current job is a combination of these roles, and I don’t think about design or engineering separately, but making great products holistically.
James Rantanen retweeted
While I was doing research for my Eads Bridge thread, I found out that streetcars used to run across the top deck until the rails were removed in 1942.
It was pedestrians and streetcars on the top deck, heavy rail on the lower. As far as I'm concerned, the perfect bridge.
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Missouri was the only state in nation that canceled free grab-and-go food program for poor kids this summer. Pretty lights, though.
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a lot of kids today don’t realize what furniture used to look like for us (left) before they vastly improved the detail (right)
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I’ve been looking into the large content viewer APIs in SwiftUI and wrote a summary of what the large content viewer is and how we can use it to ensure readability of custom toolbar like buttons in larger accessibility text sizes. nilcoalescing.com/blog/Large…
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We don’t need a whole plan.
We need a vision, a direction;
and at least one course of action to try right now.
James Rantanen retweeted
The bigger the vision, the smaller the steps.
#systemsThinking
To get anywhere new, we can’t plan the whole path.
We take steps, look around, and find out what helps.
James Rantanen retweeted
Slack feature request: “Remind me about this when my brain doesn’t feel like it’s at 200% CPU usage.”
James Rantanen retweeted
right now there are many high-skill immigrants that are begging to come to the US and we don't let them
some day we'll beg them to come and they won't want to
this is an important-but-not-urgent policy disaster, and worse than it seems
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🚨FLEXIBITS JOB ALERT🚨 We’re looking for a backend web engineer at Flexibits to help us with Fantastical Scheduling!
If that’s you, PLEASE apply! 😎
If that’s not you, PLEASE share this! 🤗
flexibits.com/jobs#software-…
James Rantanen retweeted
Moving to management is not a promotion, it’s a different job.
When companies stop treating it like a promotion, they will attract people who actually want to do the job.
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Informal information flows that subvert the hierarchy are a lot more efficient.
@bethcodes
