How technical debt makes you hit the wall sooner than later - 5 stories from the field by Ipek Ozkaya and Rod Nord #techDebt #codeQuality #refactoring insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2019/…

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” —Kurt Vonnegut Struggling to find a balance between these two modes of creativity rn. #techdebt (also #selfcare)

Unpopular opinion: text is actually a really bad medium for storing source code Text source code should be a view of the truth, not the source of truth. I should be able to freely switch between whatever views I want.

Review has become the bottleneck in many collaborative software development workflows. BS Changes are diffs that change behavior or structure but not both, making them easier to review at the cost of more developer time. medium.com/@kentbeck_7670…

#technicaldebt is like Tetris. You can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose. medium.com/s/story/techni…

This sounds like a great (and easy) way to contribute to #opensource #software!

Amazing how fast #coal is declining in the #uk. (Austria is on a very good level but good at getting better) theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Managers: “I’m asking, can you make it work, yes or no?” Devs: “Well...” 2 weeks later:

We ruined their future so they will let us pay for it. Understandable.

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"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work." ~Peter Drucker

What UI wizardry is this??

Interesting chart from Erich R. Bühler showing the (measured) cost of working on more than one thing at a time. 20% cost doing two things at once. 70% loss of productivity doing 5. These number align with Weinberg's projections in amzn.to/35CL94K . en.innova1st.com/2019/03/11/imp…

'Code is like poetry; most of it shouldn't have been written.' -- David Jacobs

I never managed to skate that good. And I am not blind. 🤩🤩

Standing at night outside and watching the International Space Station cross the starlit sky. 💫 So amazing! #loveit

Oh, I still have a Twitter account. Maybe it's time for dusting it off a bit.

Oh! Ich hab einen Twitter account!

I will be in Berlin for the FastAPI event with Sebastián Ramírez hosted by Sentry! sentry.io/resources/fast… - we will be chatting about modern Python web dev and other fun things!

Ten Principles for Growth as an Engineer by Dan Heller: “These are the most important lessons that I wish I had learned ears earlier than I did; I sure wish someone had sent it to me when I was 22.” 1. Reason about business value: Reason like a CEO. Understand the value of your