12 Reasons To Avoid Individual Code Ownership by Lorenzo Pasqualis
A follow up to the 9 points posted yesterday, Lorenzo Pasqualis is an author I’ll be following going forward. 12 Reasons To Avoid Individual Code Ownership
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Yet another great article
You know, I might as well just add dev.to into my RSS feed. Really really great articles over there these last few weeks. 9 Software Engineering Career Mistakes To Avoid… Read More »Yet another great article
Any interesting piece on the state of the the software industery.
Blaine Osepchuk over on dev.to has an interesting counterpoint to Uncle Bob’s rip on the Atlantic’s article concerning software in safety critical usages. It is a good read and makes… Read More »Any interesting piece on the state of the the software industery.
Double down Friday! Another good article about learning Vim in 4 weeks…not saying I -will-, just saying you -can-.
If you are so inclined to be a vim uber like James LaChance ;). https://medium.com/@peterxjang/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-plan-cd8b376a9b85
When you think you have it rough…this person learned programming, solo, in rural Uruguay.
Sometime we take the most basic of things for granted. Stable dependable internet, phone system, traffic control, having more than 50cents a day for food. Even with a mountain of… Read More »When you think you have it rough…this person learned programming, solo, in rural Uruguay.
Package release announcement. Auto-Gourcer (Repository visualizer)
I’ve always had a soft spot for visualizations. Info-graphics, animations, the the like. One specific tool I came across years back is Gource. Finally got around to writing a wrapper… Read More »Package release announcement. Auto-Gourcer (Repository visualizer)
CoreOS; web security and privacy.
Alex Polvi over at CoreOS put out a short, but poignant article about not only why CoreOS was started, but why they care about privacy and freedom in a digital world.… Read More »CoreOS; web security and privacy.
Thus writer just made it to my `must read` list. Everything they state is spot on and to the point.
Eric Elliott wrote on Medium about the fear of change and how to build high velocity development teams. If you read nothing else this week. Read there article here.
Economy of Scale: when big is a waste.
Some short musings. I was thinking about why larger organizations tend to be less ‘agile’ or ‘nimble’ than smaller organizations. Even though larger organizations are typically broken into smaller and… Read More »Economy of Scale: when big is a waste.
Hackathons…an honest opinion.
When taken as a hole a hackathon is a marketing, networking, and possibly hiring event. Engineers and developers of all levels attend with the award of getting to demo a cool /… Read More »Hackathons…an honest opinion.