Excellent writing by @mccrummenWaPo.

The same story about two Googles: 2010: The Postgres 9 docs are always the first hit when googling Postgres functions, even though it was released in 2010! 2022: The Postgres 9 docs are always the first hit when googling Postgres functions, even though it was released in 2010!

I'm always looking for ways to improve the hiring process, and I've come across one approach where the candidate is asked to "walk through" their resume and explain why they took each job, what they learned, and why they left.

When all you have is a monolithic web application, everything looks like an HTTP request.

One of the worst things about being in tech is that the turnover is so high that ~75% of the documents you read will have been written by someone who no longer works there. Working in product security essentially becomes an unending quest to find any sort of historical context.

Everyone needs to relisten to this GaslitNation episode on why banning abortion is an authoritarian power grab

I enjoyed this episode of aws.fm with @aeduhm and swyx aws.fm/episodes/episo… Come for the cloud technology, stay for the life philosophy.

I'm starting to learn that either organizations are built to establish and protect long-lived healthy teams, or organizations are built to tolerate and be indifferent to churn. Churn organizations optimize individuals, team organizations optimize teams.

An under-appreciated aspect of software development is that it's possible to paint yourself into multiple corners at the same time! #10xdeveloper

one of the biggest career asymmetries: People who work from better first principles can beat people with *years* more experience, but who haven’t bothered to apply critical, original thinking to how they work.

What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?

Wow, polyphia, you all are killing it! Hat tip to Steve Vai for this collab! youtube.com/watch?v=1JNmz1…

I'm bivalently boosted! Bivalent — now there's a word I haven't heard since OChem. So… watch out, COVID! I'm about to attack your backside like an SN2 reaction!

I am still looking for recommendations. 🙏🏼

Working on software systems where nobody who built it (incl. product, design, and data) is still with the organization, I have felt frustrated, and even defeated. My sympathy to the Twitter engineers who remain and those who will join.

RIP, Jeff Beck. You're an inspiration to pushing boundaries and reinventing oneself.

If the most important quality to your team is "responding to change," I don't understand why you would ever choose Scrum. #darkscrum For example, if Product can come in and blow up your whole Sprint commitments, you've probably picked the wrong tool for the job.