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5th September 2023

🔖 Measuring Developer Productivity Part 2

Part 2 of a response to the McKinsey developer productivity idea

🔖 Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey Part 1

I predict this article being very useful to me by the end of the year in order to fend off the McKinsey thing being applied to me

17th August 2023

🔖 Why I'm leaving Micro.blog

This fairly closely aligns with why I am having so much trouble using micro.blog, a service I have been paying for since the Kickstarter. Using it just doesn't align with my read of the idea of owning my own words (I mean, I guess content is the right term but it has such a gross meaning in our degraded, hustle-ised culture). When I think about ownership, I think of having control of it. But obviously when I put those words on someone else's service, I have ceded control. Sure, Manton seems like a nice guy. So does @shlee@aus.social. Nevertheless, I am giving them a bit of me every time I post to their databases.

11th August 2023

Looks at list of last books read. Hmmm

All of which are at least on their fourth go around. So comfort reading and competence porn.

Well, at least it got me out of my rut or not reading at all.

6th August 2023

🔖 Splitting the Web

An understated call to action to reject the lure of "the global town square"; not the same stridency as Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" themed articles, but the same basic point.

🔖 Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

A self-history on building S3 from a person who was there. The only thing I knew going into this was knowing the used Scrum as a project management tool. Not sure if it was the same person, but someone joined a Twitter Space run by Bryan Cantrill and defended the methodology on that basis. Which is not really here nor there.

4th August 2023

🔖 Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

I wonder if each morning as I get out of bed the pets look at me and think “oooh, big stretch!”

22nd July 2023

🔖 Tech debt metaphor maximalism

I had reason to try and explain this metaphor to someone this week, trying to reason with them that some debt is worth taking because delivering speedily is worth it. I couldn't remember this link though. Well, now I will.

16th July 2023

🔖 What Hallucinogens Will Make You See

I wonder if people with aphasia, the inability to picture something in their mind's eye, are more or less affected by hallucinogens.

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