Mathias Verraes It shouldn't be surprising that big-bang reorgs don't work well, just like big-bang system rewrites don't. However, if reorganization is done iteratively & incrementally alongside similarly iterative & incremental improvements to the system design, things tend to work better.

Udi Dahan As I wrote: "We need to think about our org structure early and continuously, not only as an afterthought when the design has ossified. Preventing systems from becoming rigid requires constant attention, from the 1000s of small local design decisions to large scale architecture."

Was browsing "what's latest on IBM acquiring Hashicorp" and stumbled upon the OpenTofu manifesto again today: "... even if you might be in the clear now, how can you build confidence that your usage won't violate the license terms in the future? What if your products or

🎉🎉🥳 Using excalidraw is so much fun!

Black coffee, no sugar, thanks!

the weakest part of a system is the people who put it together.

this works!

goldRushHasBegun reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

On the presence of physical books: you look at one of them and remember the contents in a flash.

"We benchmarked a bunch of AI services like open AI Google, llama from Facebook, and instructed them to refactor the code and what we found was quite dramatic. In like 30% of the cases the AI failed to improve the code. Its code health didn't improve, it just wrote the code in a

Patterns aren’t what you code into. They’re what you move toward as you change code. Daniel Terhorst-North is mostly @[email protected] quoting Joshua Kerievsky 🇺🇦 #CraftConf

Oh my god

It got me at "are we there yet" 😂😂

Dan Davies on "decisions taken by Kings vs decisions taken by Priests"

It is never a dull moment in Pune 😂

Shipping fast vs w quality: “Delivering that throwaway to customers buys time, but it does so only at the cost of agony for the user, distraction for the builders while they do the redesign and a bad reputation for the product that the best redesign will find hard to live down.”

Massive increase in likes after they were made private!

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