@kyleve The definition of a “Principal Engineer" or "Staff Engineer" or whatever the highest title is in a company. That person is the reason things do not just fall apart, but also measurably improve
@kyleve This is a good list. I despair that nobody outside the old-school hard core of native iOS developers cares about b) in 2023. Almost no product managers and too few designers acknowledge it as an issue, even.
I’d add one more too: a commitment to simplicity all the way from architecture down to the minutiae of code.
@kyleve I’ve been looking for an iOS dev job that aligns with those values at least partially for over a year now. I had to take a job in a completely unrelated field to pay the bills. This toot pretty much nails why everything went to crap: https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111359545610778911
@kyleve@myfear you're missing the most important thing, imo: do not call users customers. They're people, the fact that they pay for your software is somewhat tangential and calling users customers is somewhat dehumanizing.
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Why do you think it's worse than consumers? For one thing, not all software is paid so “consumers" is already wrong for lots of software…
I don't think that users is great either but at least it doesn't imply a financial transaction, which you might very well be tempted to optimize for, if you think of your users as only consumers.
What better term than users could be used, though, to describe people who use your software?
@kyleve actually you know what, I'd add another one here:
f) The ability to take a step back and re-evaluate your own work, and accept feedback. Just now I stepped away for a bit and came back with a much better answer.
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