"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system". – John Gall

5-Whys meeting: the idea is not "why did you do this wrong" but "what made this seem like the right thing to do at the time to a reasonable and intelligent person in the situation?" -- Hard on systems. Soft on people.

Gud tips for formatting long python lines.

Fun exercise: review every book you’ve read and ask “did this permanently change me?” For me, roughly 1 in 100 did Of the “99,” I hardly finished any Reading strategy—keep reading if good, then: -Start as many books as possible -Finish as few as possible -Re-read the “1s”

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Remember, a few hours of trial and error can save you several minutes of looking at the README.

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Never ask permission to refactor. Never ask permission to write tests. You do these things because you KNOW they are the best way to go fast. When you ask permission, you are asking someone else to take responsibility for your actions.

Looking at i/o in a different way. This style brings i/o to the top from the lowest layer and helps separate pure functions from side effects. Thanks, Brandon Rhodes .

Tests should be coupled to the behavior of code and decoupled from the structure of code. Seeing tests that fail on both counts.

Half way through the 12 desirable properties of tests. This week's? Determinism. With a goofy example from Gusto. youtube.com/watch?v=PwWyp-…

It requires such little effort to be a good human ❤️

What "sustainable pace" really means is that every morning, you come in rested and able to do your best work. Just read somebody over on LinkedIn confusing sustainable pace with "constant pace." There is no Agile process that I know of that requires a constant pace 1/2

#Python factlet: All objects are born true. They have to learn to be false either with a __bool__() method that returns False or a __len__() method that returns 0.

Explain Kubernetes to me like I'm Five Thread: dev.to/inidaname/expl…

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

I spoke to Kent Beck 🌻 about remote engineering compensation, the journey toward constant deployment and the "devastated wasteland" that is Agile. Biggest takeaway? Compassion is a habit, not a quality. builtin.com/software-engin…

Chess is a game that encompasses art, philosophy, beauty, grace, elegan-ah crap just blundered my queen, forget everything I just said.