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AI assistants are getting better but most teams are not benefiting from it.
Every developer must now take architectural responsibility.
That shift in mindset, and its practical consequences, is what my book Process Over Magic is about.
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I'm creating a talk about having a career as an Individual Contributor (vs a manager) and I just keep thinking, "I wish I had heard this information when I was starting out".
That said, I might have.
The reality is that you can't hear things that you aren't ready to hear.
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A full year after some were spreading disinformation about natural variability, I can see why they don't want to talk about the North Atlantic any more..
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No. I’m a firm believer in the Andon cord approach. When something goes wrong, pull the cord and fix the problem before continuing with the work.
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This sort of garbage is completely worthless. You don't get people to have a meaningful conversation, which is what a retro actually is, with gimmicks and games. It is both patronizing and insulting to treat adults as children, who don't yet have the cognitive ability to focus, so must use a game as a scaffold. If you want a good retro, set up a culture of psychological safety and stick your neck out with upper management to assure that problems outside of the team get fixed.
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Useful postmortems usually pay little attention to "a bug at line N" (local problem cause), and instead ask "why so much disruption all at once" (blast radius), "what safety mechanisms failed" (quality gates), "was detection and remediation adequate" (operations playbook).
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The easiest and the most effective option to create incentive to maintain services is to recognize people for maintainership.
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There is a huge difference between someone else's needs and someone else's preferences.
You do NOT need to put someone else's preferences before your own needs.
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<rant> People see MVP and think it's a Product. People see TDD and think it's about testing. They're wrong. It's unfortunate that the people who come up with these great ideas are not better at naming them. Ofc, one of the problems is that people have strong opinions (about MVPs, TDD, &c.) without having ever read the original books (Ries's "Lean Startup" and Beck's "TDD by Example"). They just make up something that the imagine is correct based on the (not very good) name. </rant>
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What’s the most helpful thing you’ve learned about ADHD? For me, it’s about motivation.
Neurotypicals are (primarily) motivated by:
• importance
• rewards
• consequences
ADHDers are (primarily) motivated by:
• interest
• creativity/novelty
• challenge
• urgency
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Look at the acceleration.
Think about the billion+ already plagued by fires & floods, crop failure & murderous heat.
Think about our world in a decade.
In 2 decades.
Think about 50 years of distraction, denial & inaction, politicians owned by fossil fuel psychopaths.
Get furious.
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I've created the survey!
If enough people complete it I'll be able to create a vast array of terrible maps from the data. It should take less than 10 mins to complete so if you have 5-10 mins to spare i'd really appreciate your answers.
Please share/like/comment to increase reach!
(Link is in subsequent post because putting a link in a post seems to massively limit reach)
Thanks!
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To help illustrate just how abnormal the heat has been this past 12 months, here's a plot from @LeonSimons8 of just the North Atlantic Sea Surface Temps. The spike this past year (years) is remarkable.
Berardelli Bonus: The spike in Earth's heat over the past 12 months is nothing short of astonishing. Recent study: 8% of the spike due to El Nino & 92% due to humans. Visualize the immense CO2 emissions and you see the main problem Tks @CopernicusEU @Climatologist49 4 the GFX!
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Ceci est une invitation à prendre de la hauteur. Sur cette image des anneaux de Saturne prise en 2017 par la sonde Cassini, au loin, deux petits points: La Terre et la Lune. Voici à quoi ressemblent notre planète et son satellite depuis plus d'un milliard de kilomètres!
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Scorching weather is hitting Japan. Kyoto had 35.9°C, nation's highest temperature so far this year. Waniura had its hottest June day on record.
Recently, Japan has been receiving the highest number of tourists in its history. If you visit Japan, please take care in the heat!
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A reminder that the adjective ‘nod-crafty’, from the 17th century, describes someone with the knack of nodding their head with an air of great understanding, when in reality they tuned out ages ago.