It's time to break free from Corporate Agile
Discover Basic Agile: prioritising adaptability, empowering self-organising teams, embracing uncertainty for efficient, customer-centric results
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Social Quitting
Forthcoming in the January, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.
As We May Think
“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
Cyclomatic complexity - Wikipedia
zakirullin/cognitive-load: 🧠 Cognitive Load In Software Development
🧠 Cognitive Load In Software Development. Contribute to zakirullin/cognitive-load development by creating an account on GitHub.
Documentation System
Find the software documentation system for Divio. Includes comprehensive tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. Learn more here.
Lessons Learned
A blog about software development and programming.
How to be More Agentic
On a supposedly difficult thing
Rudy Predicted Software Immortality
We keep getting closer to simulating a human being by running a process in a computer. On the street, the dream is that we might get software immortality. And I predicted it forty years ago. How does it work? You start with a large data base on what a given person was like: what they
missing the point of webassembly — wingolog
wingolog: article: missing the point of webassembly
The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
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Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors were stuck in poverty
The Industrial Revolution ended the Malthusian trap in which incomes were determined by the size of the population – making it possible for a country to leave abject poverty behind.
Donkey code
This is an attempt to write down a very simple example I’ve been using to explain the profound impact the language we use has on thought, discussion and ultimately code. Imagine you have a co…
Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory
"sacrificial" ducks
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
Order of approximation - Wikipedia
worry about at the annual calibration.") In this usage, the ordinality of the approximation is not exact, but is used to emphasize its insignificance; the higher the number used, the less important the effect. The terminology, in this context, represents a high level of precision required to account fo
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Giving a Shit as a Service
A mental model for service businesses.
Tarsnap - Why is 1 GB 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?
Explanation of why a GB is 10^9 bytes
Software engineering is about thinking, not typing
The Ants and the Grasshopper
One winter a grasshopper, starving and frail, approaches a colony of ants drying out their grain in the sun, to ask for food. “Did you not store up food during the summer?” the ants ask. “No”, says the grasshopper. “I lost track of time, because I was singing and dancing all summer long.”
Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
On Waiting - Tim Kellogg
Joe's Blog — a non-linear personal web notebook
The Worst Programmer I Know
The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.
Broken Ownership
In the ownership trio, we discussed 3 elements: Knowledge, Mandate and Responsibility. This article digs into various broken ownership scenarios where 1-2 of those elements are missing, what are the common symptoms and how to fix them.
Do Something, So We Can Change It!
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
The Small Web Browser, an inclusive proposal
How to Do Great Work