This is two daschunds in a trench coat

Constraints breed creativity. I’m now a Principal Constraints Engineer and my job is to constrain problem spaces to enable more creative solutions.

The GitHub ReadME Project posted my piece on the value of seeing operational work! github.com/readme/guides/…

I'm starting to get really resentful of Google Docs' constant suggestions to be more concise ... it's intentional Google! How else will everyone know how smart I am!!

If you don't deeply understand the current gen, please don't build the next gen. Please? Please!

"I do love me some OKR's in the morning!" – Mike Smith

@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky Where this is what they would be seeing ... the delivery-engineering-as-a-skeleton analogy!

Forty years ago today, the Sinclair Spectrum was launched. It’s specs may be pathetic by todays standards, but this little machine almost single-handedly kickstarted the entire UK games industry. Thank you Sir Clive and his team.

Underappreciated consequence of WFH: it solved the tension in the tech industry between “Employers want to pack everyone in like sardines to minimize office cost” and “Employees want an office with a door for focused work” without basically anyone noticing.

I’ve not seen this approach before - routing error notifications through the engineering team during the early onboarding phase. Nice!

One of the few things that I can be absolutely definitive about is the definition of a "Deployment Pipeline", because I defined it. So here is a short thread that answers the question “What is a Deployment Pipeline". 1/9

“There’s nowhere to hide in your own document.”

President Zelensky up against King Charles for Time’s Person of the Year, as panellists struggle to choose between leading a country against a barbaric invasion and being the eldest of four siblings.

I once worked with a manager who asked “Why do we all need these SREs when the site never goes down?”, and I think about that a lot.

BREAKING: President Trump orders reopening of Blockbuster Video. Claims it will reignite the US film industry.