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It's a bit confusing to see IT workers changing position every 12 months to reach incredibly high salaries, now playing the role of victims of the layoffs. Both things are totally nuts: to jump from one place to another continuously and to be fired in the matter of hours.

The crypto collapse gels a thought I’ve had for a long time: Silicon Valley VCs erred by shifting investment away from nerd technologists to highly articulate hucksters. The last decade didn’t build solid companies, it made Crypto Boy Bands.

Most sports news sites can be transformed into games where you have to quickly close videos and ads that pop-up while keeping your device's temperature below a certain threshold. Hall of fame includes high scores for most pop-ups closed before battery dies out.

Our code base has two major headaches the ones we would consider technical debt. Both were engineering decisions based either on the 'cool technology' fad or the 'lets play' mentality. They didn't come from featuritis or upper management pushing for dirty solutions.

I really agree with both these takes from Effective Software Testing by Maurício Aniche: 1. That simple code won’t guarantee no bugs, and is not a replacement for testing 2. That the more you write tests, the less effort it becomes to do so.

We love Ruby, Rails and testing! We recently surpassed 100k tests spread in 5k files!

At Skroutz, we love to make many deployments a day. Specifically, in 2022 we counted a total of 6295 deployments! #ruby #rubyonrails #delivery #Product #SoftwareEngineer

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