fazzaro

fazzaro, 16 days ago to DigitalNomadHub

"A lot of companies are just big piles of possums running around and biting each other. Maybe they don't start out that way, but sooner or later they hire a biting possum, and the other possums bite back, and pretty soon whenever a new possum joins holy shit there are all these possums biting me."

#reciprocity #work #culture

https://www.simplermachines.com/mr-reciprocity/

fazzaro, 2 months ago to random

"The common perception of the idea would come to be defined by the majority's behavior and results, burying the original notion."
agileisdead

https://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/ #agile #agileisdead

fazzaro, 5 months ago to random

"In 2004 I wrote an article subtitled 'Nine benefits of making your methods shorter;' I could probably add another dozen today."

https://medium.com/@jlangr/1980-small-functions-6b51d0e43305 #softwareengineering #softwarearchitecture #clearcode #cleancode

fazzaro, 6 months ago to ai

"Aspects of university education prepare young people to expect little more from life, training them to submit to bureaucratic processes, while writing reams of text that few will ever read. In the kind of education that produces a Boris Johnson, verbal fluency and entertaining arguments may be rewarded more highly than close attention to the truth. As Graeber says, we train people for bullshit jobs by training them to generate bullshit."

https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit #ai #bullshit #work

fazzaro, 6 months ago to Software

"Finished software is software that's not expected to change, and that's a feature!"

https://josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software/ #software #change

fazzaro, 7 months ago to ukteachers

"The idea that computers should personalize instruction, flattening the human differences that learners would much rather see celebrated and developed, maintains an absolute stranglehold on the imagination of the billionaires who fund education technology."

https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-misunderstanding-about-education #education #learning #humanity

fazzaro, 7 months ago to random

"My guess is no one cooks because they're afraid that if they eat that they'll have to use the compost toilet."

https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/tiny-houses-the-tiny-house-dream-is-actually-a-nightmare #tinyhouse

fazzaro, 8 months ago to random

"The first is the fundamental agile principal. We assume the future is unknowable and therefore our assumptions are possibly wrong. From this we can derive the rest."

https://medium.com/ #agile

fazzaro, 8 months ago to random

"If you can't even articulate why the old system is bad, how do you know that the new system is going to fix it?"

https://skamille.medium.com/avoiding-the-rewrite-trap-b1283b8dd39e #technicaldebt #productmanagement

fazzaro, 8 months ago to UX

"Let me copy text so I can paste it. If something navigates like a link, let me do link things. Let me see scroll bars."

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/07/just-normal-web-things/ #web #ux

fazzaro, 9 months ago to random

"New developers tend to make more mistakes and have lower performance, whereas developers with 16+ years of experience take full benefit of trunk-based development and perform better overall."

https://semaphoreci.medium.com/trunk-based-development-the-key-to-better-and-faster-software-577a76fad3cf #trunk #based #development #experience

fazzaro, 9 months ago to random

"It's almost like they want to be able to point at any given part and say 'I'm the reason that happened'."

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/05/duck/ #management

fazzaro, 10 months ago to random

"This is literally 'Continuous Integration (CI)', as originally suggested by the practices of Extreme Programming."

https://trishagee.com/2023/05/29/why-i-prefer-trunk-based-development/ #agile #xp #tbd #cicd

fazzaro, 11 months ago to LGBTQ

"Walking from the meeting, he decided: The show would go on."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/31/marian-school-theater-lgbtq-indiana/ #courage #lgbtq #marian

fazzaro, 11 months ago to science

"Think of it more like a scientist. Your MVP is what it takes to disprove your initial hypothesis."

https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/your-mvp-is-just-the-beginning-24ad00aa2dc1 #mvp #science