PHP Product developer. Coder, Event Sourcing and DDD fan(atic). Cat and dog person. https://teapawt.org/t.co/hmm8aIIeky https://teapawt.org/t.co/SGr77uIDIU
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Barry O Sullivan retweeted
Real engineers build great products and leave at 5pm to go rest or spend time with their families and friends. Tryhards who want to play “startup” sleep under their desk and accept free pizza as a substitute for being treated like a human being.
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Fear of refactoring drives almost every decision in the software industry. It's not necessary because it's always possible to do it carefully and increase code coverage, but teams are not structured to embrace refactoring. That's a fundamental issue that weighs down the industry
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Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever.
And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication…
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My current answer to "Is your manager your architect?" would be "No, unless you have a system design that is still highly flexible or greenfield". verraes.net/2022/05/conways-…
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Are your days too calm and steady? Do you wish you were on a never-ending metabolic rollercoaster? Have you considered drinking 2 to 5 pumpkin spice lattes per day? You won't regret drinking 2 to 5 pumpkin spice lattes
Barry O Sullivan retweeted
The conversation around shipping "low-hanging fruit" is self-defeating. If you prioritize low-effort, low-impact work, the team will optimize for low-effort, low-impact work.
Instead of starting with "what is easiest for us?" start with "how can we make high-impact work easier?"
Barry O Sullivan retweeted
Hey, inexperienced would-be founder, I have some hard-won advice for you, too. Crunch mode is self-destructive. After 6 weeks of it, approx, you get *worse results* than if you’d stayed on a regular pace the whole time.
There’s research on this.
A lot of research on this.
Barry O Sullivan retweeted
If you're a developer or a manager of developers, the phrases "how hard could it be", and "why don't you just", shouldn't even be part of your vocabulary. No good has come from those in the history of computing.
Barry O Sullivan retweeted
Update: ShipItCon 2022 Schedule is now LIVE :
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A day filled with great speakers, swag, food, networking and more. We'll be announcing the After Party venue very soon.
Get your ticket now while they're still available :
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#sic2022
Barry O Sullivan retweeted
I often think about how I would have killed to grow as a programmer when I was a teenager, but I didn't know where to learn from.
Now, it's easy to point people in the right direction.
Go to a domain driven design meetup near you, visit the conferences, read the books and blogs
We consistently underestimate how useful repositories and factories are as design tools. They make testing so much easier and give us more flexibility.
Also the world is burning, but hey, you talk about what you can control.
My twitter recommendations are nothing but "Change your life with this top 10 list" or "X has done Y, here's their secret 👉"
Feel like we're at lowest common denominator for generic engaging content.
Live coding during a conference talk is this times 10. I couldn't tell if the sweat dripping onto the touch pad was from nerves or the stage lights.
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Barry O Sullivan retweeted
We're hiring a senior #PHP dev at awesome #bcorp graze.com. As a recently hired Tech Lead, I'm passionately committed to #diversity, so I'm reaching out to all my #techInclusion networks. Dm for details!
@IntertechLGBT @womenintech
@WomenWhoCode @Colorintechorg
Barry O Sullivan retweeted
Please don't use exceptions for flow control.
Checking if a user exists or not? It's perfectly valid for them not to. If you have a network or query problem, that's a case for an exception.
This is language agnostic. There's a reason #golang and #swiftlang allow multi retvals.
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Using test pain as a design guide. Lots of interesting things in @barryosull talk at #DDDEU 🤩
Slides: slides.com/barryosull/using-…
Slides from my @ddd_eu talk on
Using test pain as a design guide.
slides.com/barryosull/using-…
