"My rule is that the right time is always right now." Casey Neistat

Quickest way to burn out? Being in a job you deeply care about but had no autonomy to bring about change.

The greatest myth across the entire industry is that after this sprint we're all going to start making good technical decisions instead.

Most people think they lack knowledge when they really lack focus.

"Monolith" is the word you use when you want to blame the brokenness of your system on its size, instead of on 15 years of bad development practices.

Velocity should be renamed “future tech debt” buff.ly/2N4sQxU

Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365. A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool:

Hey mod why don't you start a new challenge where you get billionaires to invest a few mil into #GME, post the photo proof and nominate some other billionaires to do the same next? Not much for them, lots for fighting illegal wall street practices🤷‍♂️Elon Musk you in?

One thing I’ve learned in 25 years of coding: never write sloppy code in order to build a prototype faster. I used to think prototypes go ahead 20% of the time, but honestly it’s closer to 80% – that “quick hack” will be with you for years, so take the time to get it right now.

Программирование всё-таки не связано с математикой или чтением текста на обычно языке — оно активирует другие отделы мозга. news.mit.edu/2020/brain-rea… elifesciences.org/articles/58906

Povilas Korop | Laravel Courses Creator & Youtuber “Do not skate to where the puck is now, but towards where it is going” We can’t assume that most companies already use the stuff that gets praised in our little bubble, but because of the quality, I do think that things like Alpine/Livewire will reach high adoption eventually.

Job interview: “algorithms” Reality: “Turn a 127 message deep slack thread between 5 engineers into a decision”

This is BIG: EU data protection authorities rule that IAB Europe's consent popups are unlawful, and that all data collected by Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses must be deleted. #GDPR #Privacy iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enfo…

That brand of “agile” that is rooted in story points, timeboxes, epics, and individual assignments? It is like someone went through Agile’s trash can. It is agile derived, as a junkyard is to a factory. It isn’t the thing, it is the leftover artifacts only.

If you're doing Scrum and estimating or breaking up stories into tasks, you may want to reconsider. From the horses mouth: 👇

think a lot about feedback Patrick Collison gave me when i screwed up a product launch early in my time at stripe mvp = minimal surface area of things, done exceptionally well—not many things done partway.

Programmers in 2024 😂🤭

Why does every project feel like it's never delivered on time based on initial estimates? Dave Stewart explains the hidden work within the work in an excellent visual. The entire post can be found at davestewart's blog post "the work is never just the work"

Sebastian Aaltonen The people who use JSON outside of JS probably don't know that you can just send a binary blob across a network. I had to explain this to someone the other day, and they were actually surprised that it was that simple.

I’ve been learning about beam vm, processes in elixir and holy shit nodejs is trash in comparison