A little copy-paste is cheaper than the wrong abstraction
One time I deleted what seemed to be a duplicated file, but it reappeared. I deleted it again, and the same thing happened. I did this three times b…
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Standby pay at $3 an hour is a wage for owning your whole evening
Three dollars an hour to not drink. That's the going rate for owning your entire evening. You can't have a beer. You can't drive two towns over. You…
GUIs should have been keyboard-first this whole time
A viral post set the internet ablaze last week with a straightforward proposition: GUIs ought to be entirely keyboard-driven. After that, everyone c…
Tying bonuses to badge swipes is how you teach people to game you
The interns discovered the cheat code earlier than the bosses realized that there was a whole game to be played. Someone shared that there would be…
The Cows Don't Send Alerts
My neighbor spent yesterday morning clearing a patch of maquis with a bulldozer. I watched him from the fence for a while, coffee in hand, contribut…
Agile fatigue isn't about Agile. It's about who holds the stopwatch.
Your stand-up routine lasts 45 minutes. No one in that room thinks it's a stand-up routine. You're basically giving a status update with unnecessary…
Devs are adding typos to prove they're not ChatGPT and that's bleak
Last week someone accused me of being a robot. Can you believe it? The reviewer responded with "This reads like it was written by ChatGPT." I guess…
AI didn't kill developer joy. Managers who mandate AI did.
The posts that say "I don’t feel like a developer anymore" are not about AI. They’re about your boss reading one thread on LinkedIn and deciding eve…