sleepyfox, 18 days ago to random

EqualExperts are probably the first big consultancy to declare SAFe "unsafe at any speed"
https://www.equalexperts.com/blog/our-thinking/problems-with-safe-framework/

sleepyfox, 25 days ago to random

The problem here is that OpenAI only backed down because Ms Johansson has the money to hire a top flight law firm and the celebrity status to use the world's press as a platform.
When OpenAI comes to steal the rest of us's likeness, we won't have the money or status to fight them.
https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/112476502091450270

sleepyfox, 25 days ago to random

"Large monorepos can often pose a challenge for traditional CI systems"
By which you mean all CI systems, other than the one you custom built in order to solve the problem that you created by choosing to put all your things in a monorepo?

jasongorman, 28 days ago to random

Behind my house there's a patch of lawn the council used to mow. They stopped doing it years ago, and nobody living on that part of the street sees it as their lawn and therefore as their responsibility to mow, even though they all complain about the impact it has on them.

And that, in a nutshell, is the developer training market explained.

sleepyfox, 29 days ago to random

If I see yet another promotion of "thought leadership" drivel from a 27 year old CxO who gets air time because some gullible tech giant bought their startup for "one bee-llion dollars" I'm going to implode, like a mini black hole.
I mean, I wouldn't be complaining if their ideas were actually good, or even original, but they invariably aren't.

jasongorman, 29 days ago to random

Yes, those seem like legit replies.

Take my money!!!

sleepyfox, 1 month ago to random

So often I hear 'the business needs you to do this' or 'the business wants this' or 'the business won't accept excuses'.
Except 'the business' doesn't exist. Businesses aren't people, they can't think, they don't have thoughts or desires.
Instead there are people in charge, executives. They are rich, privileged people. They have names. Use them.
Managers just say 'the business' because you can't argue with a nameless, faceless unseen entity. You might as well say 'God wants you to do this'.

grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

OH HEY

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10491133

sleepyfox, 1 month ago to random

"Everything old is new again"
https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/099df6192b57d94317aa423444dab1cc

sleepyfox, 2 months ago to ShareYourMusic

As a 10-year veteran of #remote #collaboration, when COVID-19 struck and everybody went remote, I thought that this would invalidate my USP, my key differentiator.
Boy was I wrong.
After three years of remote work my assumption was that everyone would have learned to excel remotely. I was wrong. So so wrong.
I think a part of the exec's hard push for #RTO is the understanding that many organisations' 'remote culture' was just lipstick on the pig of their in-office culture.

jasongorman, 2 months ago to random

So I've been watching two dozen screen recordings from 3 Code Craft Foundation level assessments, and seeing some heavy use of "A.I." code generation. Last video I watched, I don't think I saw them write any code themselves beyond method declarations.

It seems to typically result in about 2x as much code.

jasongorman, 2 months ago to random

Developer "productivity" can look very different when you factor in downstream work. Will those minutes you saved today cost hours in the future?

hazelweakly, 2 months ago to random

If there's one thing I wish I burn entirely to the ground and wipe away all traces and remnants of, its the misplaced notion that the productivity of Knowledge Work can be managed, measured, analyzed, and optimized as if all one needed to do was drip feed heroin up the arse of their hapless workers.

sleepyfox, 2 months ago to random

"Now, scientists have traced our tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code that is abundant in our genome but had been dismissed for decades as junk DNA, a sequence that seemingly serves no biological purpose."
So many times I've come across something like that in a codebase and thought 'that's useless, I can just remove that', only to find out that it actually had a use, somewhere unexpected.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/index.html

hazelweakly, 3 months ago to random

Writing me the good code todayyy

Set all variables to their known defaults if they aren't already set

set_if_unset() {
key=$1
current_value="${!key}"
array_value="${base_variable_defaults["$key"]-${derived_variable_defaults["$key"]}}"
if [[ $current_value =~ "WARNING: UNSET" ]]; then
printf -v "$key" -- "$array_value"
fi
}

thirstybear, 3 months ago to random

WhereTF did this “conventional commit format" and commitlint BS come from? It looks and smells like a solution desperately looking for a problem.

An effective (git) commit is simply

• a subject line. No more than 50 chars (to keep git log happy). Written in the imperative (eg ‘Remove unused method)
• a body, wrapped at 70-ish characters (I use 72) explaining what & why
• a blank line between the two

Seemples.

H/T Chris Beams who pulled together this collective wisdom
https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

estherschindler, 3 months ago to random

Let's enumerate all the sins committed in the name of #Agile development, shall we?

You're going to nod along, I'm sure.

(By me, so you know there's a chocolate reference.) https://www.runtime.news/agile-software-promises-efficiency-it-requires-a-cultural-shift-to-get-right/

hazelweakly, 3 months ago to random

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sleepyfox, 3 months ago to random

I ran a Code Dojo at a company.
In the retrospective afterwards one developer said that they thought it was a waste of time, because they didn't learn anything new.

mlevison, 3 months ago to random

As Google becomes useless and LLMs regurgitate drivel, I'm looking for Independant minded #Agile Blogs. I'm trying to curate a set of trusted sources that I can recommend to students.

Examples of what I want: https://dannorth.net/blog/, https://simplybegin.co.uk/blog/, https://medium.com/the-liberators

Please boost for reach - my current list follows.

Exclusions #SAFe