Software developer, ex-scientist, proud parent of a human and two Italian Greyhounds. He/him/his. Views are my own unless noted otherwise.
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Joined June 2007
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If the most important quality to your team is "responding to change," I don't understand why you would ever choose Scrum. #darkscrum
For example, if Product can come in and blow up your whole Sprint commitments, you've probably picked the wrong tool for the job.
Working on software systems where nobody who built it (incl. product, design, and data) is still with the organization, I have felt frustrated, and even defeated. My sympathy to the Twitter engineers who remain and those who will join.
I am still looking for recommendations. 🙏🏼
What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?
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What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?
I'm bivalently boosted!
Bivalent — now there's a word I haven't heard since OChem.
So… watch out, COVID! I'm about to attack your backside like an SN2 reaction!
Wow, @polyphia, you all are killing it! Hat tip to @stevevai for this collab!
youtube.com/watch?v=1JNmz17g…
What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?
An under-appreciated aspect of software development is that it's possible to paint yourself into multiple corners at the same time! #10xdeveloper
My best tip for improving in code and system design is, pay attention to the pain. Don't ignore it. Don't automate it away. Don't build around it. Lean into it. Understand it. Address it.
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I'm starting to learn that either organizations are built to establish and protect long-lived healthy teams, or organizations are built to tolerate and be indifferent to churn. Churn organizations optimize individuals, team organizations optimize teams.
I enjoyed this episode of aws.fm with @aeduhm and @swyx
aws.fm/episodes/episode-25-s…
Come for the cloud technology, stay for the life philosophy.
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Everyone needs to relisten to this @gaslitnation episode on why banning abortion is an authoritarian power grab
Episode 3. The Assault on Reproductive Rights: An Interview with Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo
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One of the worst things about being in tech is that the turnover is so high that ~75% of the documents you read will have been written by someone who no longer works there.
Working in product security essentially becomes an unending quest to find any sort of historical context.
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The same story about two Googles:
2010: The Postgres 9 docs are always the first hit when googling Postgres functions, even though it was released in 2010!
2022: The Postgres 9 docs are always the first hit when googling Postgres functions, even though it was released in 2010!
Excellent writing by @mccrummenWaPo.
“Gutted”: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud wapo.st/3Jc8deZ
