Senior Eng Manager. Infinitas Learning. No longer on twitter. Find me on Mastodon @sithmel@fosstodon.org
Reading, United Kingdom
Joined January 2010
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Maurizio Lupo retweeted
Looking forward to speaking @devseccon on Wed – see you there! #securecoding
DSC⚡️ Speaker spotlight 🔦:
Is this okay!? 🤔 @rouanw will be delivering an amazing talk on how to review code for security issues. Get your free ticket here: bit.ly/3NEYYXP
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
😢 R.I.P.
Fred Brooks was the author of "The Mythical Man Month" a book that was hugely influential on so many of us. Also his paper "No Silver Bullet" would be on most people's shortlist of most influential papers.
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Maurizio Lupo retweeted
The Boy Scout Rule: Check the code in cleaner than you checked it out — every single time.
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
Never blame your employer for things that are your responsibility. If the code is a mess, it’s not the employer’s fault, it’s the programmers’ fault. Learn to negotiate features. Never negotiate workmanship. The only way to go fast is to go well.
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
New in Exploring Mastodon:
The usual Twitter convention is to follow the whole person, meaning one Twitter account for a person would tweet on many different subjects. In the Fediverse, we see people having multiple Mastodon (and other) accounts.
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Maurizio Lupo retweeted
I'm finding Mastodon a lot easier to understand having I've realized that it's just blogs. Everyone gets a little blog, on their own server or someone else's. Following someone is pretty much subscribing to their feed. You can even roll your own implementation from scratch.
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
Accidentally I ran an interesting experiment comparing Twitter and Mastodon this morning when I tweeted/tooted about a blog post
Mastodon: 3,000 followers (all from the last few days), 25 replies, 91 reblogs, 184 faves
Twitter: 43,000 followers, 7 replies, 31 retweets, 183 likes
ALT Post by me on Mastodon 9 hours ago: I wrote about What to blog about: <link> A big challenge with blogging is feeling the pressure to say something new and unique. Two categories of content that completely skip that: TILs (Today I Learned) about things you've just learned, and posts that describe projects you've just built. So that's my advice for blogging: write about things you've learned, and write about things you've built!
ALT My tweet 9 hours ago: I wrote about "What to blog about" - how to avoid the pressure to try and say something unique and new, which can so often hold you back from publishing anything at all TLDR: Write about things you've learned, and write about things you've built!
The most common causes of productivity issues I have witnessed in 20+ years are either crippling technical debt or lack of clarity about what you are building. Yet, bosses blames engineers not working hard enough.
If you are curious about Mastodon and you don't know how to start: I have found this nice guide 2ality.com/2022/10/mastodon-…
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others.
TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
Elon Musk destroying Twitter for all of us who weren’t strong enough to delete our accounts on our own is basically a shot-for-shot remake of Gollum stealing the Ring from Frodo and falling into Mt. Doom
Maurizio Lupo retweeted
The difference between technical debt and a mess is the same as a well planned home mortgage and a teenage credit card blowout.
True technical debt is never intentionally bad code. Rather, it is a carefully considered deficit in features, structure, and glitter.
I found difficult to explain my colleagues, especially those who are younger than me, that I quit playing video games around 15 years ago. A thread ...
I was an avid gamer starting with Commodore 64 up to Wii. But when I was 30 I couldn't cope with the pressure of being a parent of 2, studying to advance with my career and keep playing the guitar (eventually I gave up that too).
I do other things: I play music, I work with wood, I watch tv, mostly as a social activity with my wife/kids. I feel that playing is not getting me anywhere near my dreams. Like a waste of time without achieving anything.
Since then, my kids grew up (they are 19 and 16 now) and I could have resumed with my hobby. I just didn't care anymore.