so here's a story I volunteer helping seniors with their technology issues. One of my regulars came in with a Lenovo laptop. It still had a retail sticker; I imagine she bought it used, for over $500 "I bought this so recently, how is it already so slow," she asked me

The difference between technical debt and a mess is the same as a well planned home mortgage and a teenage credit card blowout. True technical debt is never intentionally bad code. Rather, it is a carefully considered deficit in features, structure, and glitter.

Elon Musk destroying Twitter for all of us who weren’t strong enough to delete our accounts on our own is basically a shot-for-shot remake of Gollum stealing the Ring from Frodo and falling into Mt. Doom

Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others. TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1

I am giving Mastodon a try. I am @[email protected] See you there!

Accidentally I ran an interesting experiment comparing Twitter and Mastodon this morning when I tweeted/tooted about a blog post Mastodon: 3,000 followers (all from the last few days), 25 replies, 91 reblogs, 184 faves Twitter: 43,000 followers, 7 replies, 31 retweets, 183 likes

If you are curious about Mastodon and you don't know how to start: I have found this nice guide 2ality.com/2022/10/mastod…

The most common causes of productivity issues I have witnessed in 20+ years are either crippling technical debt or lack of clarity about what you are building. Yet, bosses blames engineers not working hard enough.

I'm finding Mastodon a lot easier to understand having I've realized that it's just blogs. Everyone gets a little blog, on their own server or someone else's. Following someone is pretty much subscribing to their feed. You can even roll your own implementation from scratch.

New in Exploring Mastodon: The usual Twitter convention is to follow the whole person, meaning one Twitter account for a person would tweet on many different subjects. In the Fediverse, we see people having multiple Mastodon (and other) accounts. martinfowler.com/articles/explo…

The Boy Scout Rule: Check the code in cleaner than you checked it out — every single time.

Never blame your employer for things that are your responsibility. If the code is a mess, it’s not the employer’s fault, it’s the programmers’ fault. Learn to negotiate features. Never negotiate workmanship. The only way to go fast is to go well.

Dave Farley I think it's the plot of Ted Lasso, but also true.

😢 R.I.P. Fred Brooks was the author of "The Mythical Man Month" a book that was hugely influential on so many of us. Also his paper "No Silver Bullet" would be on most people's shortlist of most influential papers.

Looking forward to speaking Srini on Wed – see you there! #securecoding

Uninstalling twitter, it is now just a distraction...