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Drbruced, 6 months ago to fediverse

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

mfowler, 6 months ago to random

I enjoyed this post from @simon on figuring out how a news article in sourced

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/deciphering-clues/

mfowler, 7 months ago to random

NEW POST

My colleague Sannie Lee has met many students who are looking into getting into technology, taking narrow professionally-oriented majors. Sannie, however, has found that a traditional liberal-arts degree has given her skills that are highly relevant to her work as a product manager.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-liberal-arts.html

mfowler, 7 months ago to random

NEW POST: It's now been a year since The Muskover, what does my use of social media look like now, both as a reader and a writer?

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2023-social-media.html

mfowler, 7 months ago to random

NEW POST: As React UI controls become more sophisticated, complex logic can get intertwined with the visual representation. This makes it hard to reason about the behavior of the component, hard to test it, and necessary to build similar components that need a different look.

Juntao Qiu tackles this by using a Headless Component, which extracts all non-visual logic and state management, separating the brain of a component from its looks.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/headless-component.html

mfowler, 8 months ago to random

@tastapod I'm amused by "Boris" on Xitter. He said that he doesn't "have 'diversity' high on my priority list" while demonstrating the opposite through his volume of tweeting :blobrollingeyes:

mfowler, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

I've been taking a break from work for the last few weeks, so missed much of the brouhaha over the McKinsey developer productivity article. But I'm sure that I could NOT write a better response than this one from @tastapod

https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/

Teri_Kanefield, 8 months ago to random

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mfowler, 9 months ago to random

NEW POST

Many software teams create services exposed as APIs, without any user-interface, making them hard to demonstrate. A demo front-end is a simple user-interface just used to manipulate such an API. Matteo Vaccari describes how and why to build one - showing its usefulness both in explaining the API's capabilities to stakeholders and to help client developers explore how to interact with the API.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/demo-front-end.html

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

"As a small startup, you have the opportunity to avoid growing into the structural dysfunction of the biggies you compete with. You have the opportunity to be business-aligned rather than function-aligned in your org structure."

https://www.agileorgdesign.com/content/startup-structure-orgdesign-product-engg

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

NEW §

When scaling up, getting costs under control is vital to stabilizing financial health. But as a weight-loss expert might say, the key to long-term health is to do things that promote a sustainable lifestyle. Sofia Tania and Stefania Stefansdottir now move on to begin to describe these initiatives: federated accountability, visibility, and nudges towards better financial discipline.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/04-costs.html#SustainPhase

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

We are saddened today to learn of the passing of Stefan Tilkov @stilkov and offer our condolencies to his family, friends, and colleagues at INNOQ.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/202308-stefan-tilkov.html

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

Sad loss of an iconic place from where I grew up

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/world/europe/crooked-house-pub-fire.html?unlocked_article_code=QEjNHaWUNp8BjbY08JBedBla-X7v_wotgQIq9zmpjGo12lggdmmlNC5-UVpOVqi5MSS2hmC2uAgri4hjf99UpNI0EF0GZJfEip-xCV52nysjpJl-2VcJInjV04WqEOa3-xUnsG47nb0Tr4Hm5J7l2BHoTPkKbIDa2n-IidTvpPKjx4HQiqoq3M8iiDL2t9uGneIHBdWmdYNluMTRveDVinyeCeVz6dR_svhXEChrdiHTSQQNmqIxMAkYm6rdTQkHG-R-cANF0teG0bzew9ejK4I0VKzFETqNgV2L82BS05Av68PpmCpnxyTs5MhGDG2revw42fokFFnIWIc9GUo1755RIWz5&smid=url-share

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

NEW POST

My colleague Sarah Taraporewalla writes the first installment to describe an approach to building technology strategy that challenges the convention. It starts by identifying the overall strategic directions that the organization is considering, and using common aspects of these directions to indicate the investigations needed for the organization to understand the technology implications raised by that strategic change.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/creating-integrated-tech-strategy.html

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

+1 to @jwz 's argument that replies to posts on mastodon should be treated similarly to comments on blogs

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

Much of what I'm reading about the KOSA bill in the U.S. sounds worrying. Here is a good article about the concerns

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

Birgitta Böckeler @bboeckel continues her explorations in using LLMs, this time by asking GitHub Copilot to write a median function. It gave her three suggestions to choose from. The experience shows you still have to know what you're doing when asking LLMs to write code, since the LLM's programming skills are often rather flawed.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html#median---a-tale-in-three-functions

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

My colleague Birgitta Böckeler @bboeckel has taken on the role of coordinating how Gen AI effects our software delivery practices. She's publishing her exploration in a series of memos. This first one looks at the toolchain: how tools help and where they come from.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html#the-toolchain

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

NEW POSTS

I've written a brief summary of Team Topologies, the model created by @matthewskelton and Manuel Pais at @TeamTopologies. Many of my colleagues are finding this to be a useful tool to think about how best or organize software development teams

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TeamTopologies.html

mfowler, 10 months ago to random

NEW POST: A case study of a decentralized approach to enterprise architecture at Xapo bank using Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies, and the Architecture Advice Process

https://martinfowler.com/articles/xapo-architecture-experience.html

kevlin, 10 months ago to random

Suggestions for an Evernote replacement? I held on as long as I could, but the latest version has such a shockingly poor UX that I feel now is the time to migrate. #TIA

judeswae, 10 months ago to fediverse Spanish

@selenadeckelmann really great to see the @wikimediafoundation joining the #fediverse and opening its own instance. Welcome!

timbray, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Dropped by Bluesky for the first time in a while. I'm a Fediperson but still have sympathy with what they're trying to do, and the tone seems to have stabilized for the moment.

Anyhow, I have 30 invites that I haven't thought about in a while, so, giving them away. Reply to this post if you want one. In case that's more than 30 people I will invent totally arbitrary and questionably fair criteria for handing them out.

Maybe stop if there are already a huge number of replies.