"Man, this shower is dragging on. I think I'll grab a cup of coffee and finish this shower later." <- 😂 from User Story Mapping

Is it worth the effort to use identical column names to take advantage of the JOIN USING shorthand? Asking for a friend. ;) #postgresql #sql #schema

𝐆𝐨𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭 - Een vlot geschreven persbericht wordt eerder opgepakt. Wat zijn de bouwstenen die je hiervoor nodig hebt? 👉 Smart.pr collega Erik Hulsbos legt je dit haarfijn uit op Frankwatching. buff.ly/2SCyNZE

👏 And 👏 we're 👏 live 👏 And we've moved to exercism.org 😲 We hope you love what we've done. It's just the beginning and there *will* be lots of bugs. Go easy on us with the feedback please 😅💙

So I’m supposed to dial my shoe size? :)

Me: closes GitLab Me: "finally done with work for the day. Time to relax & do something fun." Me: opens GitHub

Most meetings are a waste of time. But there's an easy fix. The 10% rule––how it changed my company and will change yours too:

People often ask how Figma prioritizes its roadmap. It’s a hard question, which I’ll try to tackle over time in small bites. This first thread is about user input 1/n

Richard Bird passed away last night, after a long illness. He was hugely influential in FP, including Haskell, and in MPC. He will be remembered for the elegance of his work and his writing. He was also my supervisor, my colleague, and my friend, and I will miss him greatly.

I once was asked in the interview “what makes you get up in the morning?” Replying “Well, we can’t sleep forever, right?” didn’t seem to impress the interviewer Never heard back from them 😆

tbh, my experience of working with more junior engineers is that left to their own devices they will absolutely (on paper) complete most tasks more quickly than I will, and my role has primarily been teaching them to slow down and think more intentionally about what they’re doing

Focus is what makes teams great. Working on five things at the same time is the recipe for mediocrity.

Depresssingly, this quote from 1984 is even more true today than it was then.

If you design your service such that it is impossible to cancel your subscription, you're a bunch of thieves. I'm looking at you ExpressVPN.

“… effort spent on something that is not a constraint is a waste. If increasing the speed and stability of your software delivery capability is not the constraint on your ability to achieve your organization’s mission, you shouldn’t focus on it.” - medium.com/@jezhumble/res…

One of the most convincing and attention attracting opening to a math lesson —Thomas Garrity Williams, «On mathematical maturity» [full video: buff.ly/3EIch6N]

A really cool idea for REPL: The 'explain' command that takes a piece of code and describes its every part in a beginner-friendly way. I don't recall any programming language doing this. Here's my prototype for OCaml 👇 What do you think?