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agge

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About agge

Programmer and hobbyist game developer

https://agge.dev

https://github.com/augustalex

https://www.linkedin.com/in/august-alexandersson-a131a4105

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    Comment #47219930

    If you create a graph of what changes are needed to allow for other changes, eventually leading to your goal. Then by definition you have the smallest safest step you can take. It …

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    Comment #47219544

    So we make it many small commitable refactorings instead :)

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    Comment #47219521

    There is a great interview that talks about the process and what it is about more generally: https://youtu.be/HbjWOvxJjms?si=5ta-JOyfFLub2yX_ I think there are similar methods, suc…

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    Comment #47219365

    Using a Mikado style graph for planning any large work in general has been really useful to me. Used it a lot at both Telia back in 2019 and Mentimeter at 2022. It gives a great wa…

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    Comment #47219319

    Stealth marketing by someone completely unrelated to the book, 11 years after the book is released. Seems unlikely.

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    Comment #45023170

    I’ve been in three teams that has done Mob Programming full-time. In one team it was for two years and a half years. I have lots of side projects when I get home. Love sitting by m…

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    Comment #44060434

    Laughed when I read ”We where 11 engineers that could be fed with 2 pizzas”. But you are in Sweden? You can feed maybe 3-4 engineers with 2 Swedish pizzas. Which is also coincident…

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    Comment #40661961

    I work in my Vision Pro through most of the day. The avatars are passable for joining pair- and mob programming sessions. For more personal meetings I use the camera on my laptop. …

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    Comment #35625030

    If an AI could write your tests, doesn’t that suggest the test are just checking implementation details? Unless you describe your business rules in detail.. as a test for example! …

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    Comment #29154497

    Hilarious. He created a homepage for his password: https://zeeslag.ichi.city/mypassword.html

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    Comment #27957084

    This resonates with my thinking as well. Although something I’ve always been missing from people talking about agile in general, is more specifics on how collaboration can happen. …

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    Comment #19755115

    Sass is very much still useful today. Mixins, used sparsely, can be very powerful and avoid large doses of redundancy. Also variables with good names make the job a lot easier than…

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