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.
I wonder if each morning as I get out of bed the pets look at me and think “oooh, big stretch!”
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.
I wonder if people with aphasia, the inability to picture something in their mind's eye, are more or less affected by hallucinogens.
Tending and caring for an indie web in the midst of generative AI content farms
Was highly amused at the Product-Engineering quartet alignment meeting the duelling declarations, spoken within minutes of each other, that we need an AI feature to differentiate is from the competition and we also need an AI feature because we’re losing sales as the competitors are all promising one too.
Apple Guy Gruber (I don’t know why I bothered, it’s not like he could have a vanity search going anyway) approving quotes:
Why doesn’t the EU just turn off the web?
(https://www.threads.net/@levie/post/CurnRtuLgv_ CW Threads link)
And I just don’t get it. It’s not the web that vexes the EU, it’s surveillance capitalism. A thing he also claims to dislike in many ways. Calling for TikTok to be banned; a visceral dislike of Facebook; supporting Apple’s privacy initiatives.
I mean, you can’t help but wonder if he just has a grudge because the EU wants to force Apple to make the iPhone fractionally more consumer friendly with standardised cables.
I kinda of love, in a horrified way, the evaluation that middle management is basically glorified high school politics and the solution is drumroll Taylorism. No, not Taylorism like that. Like this.
Saving in order to sporadically remind myself the dangers of systemisation.
I read this one a lot, before every new starter.