Scept Meerkat Michael Feathers I think there are at least two points for such an exercise. First, understanding one’s tools is a super power. Second, the text editor is not yet a completely solved problem.

If you work at GitHub for the past 9 years, and you have a dream to build your own calmup, do you quit to follow your dream or not? petros.blog/calmup

Booking a flight on Ryanair website is a minefield of dark patterns and erroneous clicks, each one designed to get you to spend more money. What a shit experience and one I avoid unless I have no other choice of airline.

Relieved to know I'm not the only one who finds toggle switches puzzling sometimes. "The Confusing State of Toggle Switches" uxmovement.com/mobile/the-con…

Google is not really an Agile company because they don't really listen to their customers. They occasionally make very good guesses (docs, gmail), but their track record is far from perfect. We all need to remember that and stop worshiping them because of their market cap.

15 years ago today. The first release of Ubuntu 🥳 #Ubuntu15

We're psyched to present you.. 🥁* Drumroll* 🥁 Organizations! Users can now collaborate within a Slack workspace. They can use the /tefter command to add bookmarks, create aliases and search. Read more about it 👉tefter.io/faq#organizati…

Beware fearful prognostications about AI, says the Brookings Institute: “The big challenge we’re looking at in the next few years is not mass unemployment but mass redeployment,” Michael Chui of the McKinsey Global Institute has observed. brookings.edu/research/histo…

Four years ago I setup bash to keep a history of all the commands I type. It's great to be able to go back in time and, nowadays, the cost is tiny. Here are the most frequently-executed commands from the 172k I run. Visit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… to learn about a related MOOC.

Sketchnotes from the recent London #ProductTank preso by our own John Pagonis on "Evidence based backlogs"

Just published as open access/data on Zenodo a data set of 17,264 GitHub projects developed by enterprises, its extended description, and its replication package. Paper will appear in the MSR-2020 MSR 2025. zenodo.org/record/3742962 zenodo.org/record/3742854 zenodo.org/record/3742973

Good folks at figmadesign - Any idea how to disable on-screen-arrow (and keyboard arrow key) connections between screens in Presentation View and have only prototype interactions for users to navigate? #ux #interaction #design

figmadesign Thanks for responding! Arrow navigation renders usability testing invalid, especially when measuring findability. Users practically have free access to all screens without using on-screen nav. In unmoderated testing the issue is even graver. I'll pm you with more details :)

I am going to tickle your brain today. “I believe that nature does not have a master branch. Unfinished branches are rejection of the evolution process. We just live in a current branch. And in this chaos, cosmos evolves”

Allen recounts the commercial history of Smalltalk with good answers for why we aren't coding in it today. Every detail of the 15 years I was devoted to Smalltalk ring true. The fabulous PARC years before that make a good read too. worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOf…

Allen's commercial history of Smalltalk ends with a list of all of the ways it succeeded. In 25 more cryptic paragraphs I've written my own history as it bears on the future I seek. Here, for insiders who understand Smalltalk's influence on wiki: ward.asia.wiki.org/are-we-a-model…

Raspberry Pi 400 vs ZX Spectrum: spinellis.gr/blog/20201102/ The Raspberry Pi 400 showcases the amazing progress personal computing technology has made over the past 40 years.

If Conway's Law surprises you, you haven't been seeing code and organization as one system.

How applicable are agile software development practices, continuous integration, and continuous deployment in the context of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter? Discuss. mars.nasa.gov/technology/hel…

WOW, that would help a lot while working remotely!!!