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"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence." - Niklaus Wirth.

I'm currently in Doha waiting to board a plane to Berlin and noticed this very strange name for Pull Requests

jireaucracy

This might be something, but definitely not object-orientation. Hint: see Alan Kay and his idea what OOP is

40,000 Pull Requests In 2 Years... Here's What He Found Out | Dragan Stepanović ➡️ youtu.be/gTPPu24t-l0 #git #softwareengineering

I could not agree more with Dragan Stepanović and Dave Farley on this clip youtu.be/gTPPu24t-l0?si… And I think is well explain on this picture from one of Dragan Stepanović

Don't be surprised to discover you're losing quality if you decide to follow a branching model, which delays feedback (from integration and consequently production).

The opposite of Extreme Programming is not Balanced or Safe or Conservative Programming. It's YOLO Programming. And it's way more extreme in the way you really wouldn't want it to be, with all the delays in feedback loops, higher risks and late surprises it inherently carries.

I'll tell you something. We need far fewer Jocko Willinks and far more Gabor Matés.

Flexibility in code is a _cost_ not a _benefit_. "Let's make it configurable!" puts the burden on the consumer, requiring more decisions to make, resulting in more effort, whereas an opinionated setup might be good enough, allowing the consumer to spend that effort elsewhere.

I'll be slowly moving outta here to bluesky.

Instead of adding more gates to prevent (or “prevent”) problems in production — has lots of counter effects by increasing transaction cost and driving batch size up — try strengthening observability, speeding up delivery pipeline and reducing the impact exposure through canary.