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This feature is 10 years late

Looking forward to someone writing the Spring equivalent this on the JVM

Scratching this itch: tracks suddenly become unplayable in my [carefully curated] Spotify playlists. Fixing them is cumbersome. Spotify usually has alternative recordings of the sa…

I'm sure many people have equated "typing code faster" with velocity, productivity, and execution speed. But I am not doing it. I'm saying that given N developers, if they all type…

Thanks!

"When AI is able to deliver coding tasks based on a prompt, there won’t be enough copies of the Mythical Man Month to dissuade business folks from trying to accelerate road maps an…

I guess yes? https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/

>7. This incident has reminded that many people mistakenly assume that git tags are immutable, especially if they are in semver format. Although it's rare for such tags to be chang…

Well, this AI operates now at staff+ level

The primary reason I keep writing is that this, the plain written word, is The Platform to transport ideas in time and space. It has passed the test of time in ways that each of th…

KISS > DRY

Yep, this is an important point. We wanted the metrics to create the right set of incentives to make people improve the right parts of the system. For example, we did present deplo…

> Why do line managers want this info? Do you think they have someone in mind for promotion, and they are looking for metrics of accomplishment? Nah, you don't need to assume malic…

I worked on an internal platform for a large engineering org and was responsible for choosing what features we put in. We had the technical means to track everything from commits t…

Yeah that was my point. In the end both approaches can be fine (depends on your context). The real difference is that whatever choice you take, it will need the right investment in…

"This scale – the scale of devprod, and in turn the scale of the overall organization, such that it could afford 10 FTEs on tooling – was a major factor in our choices" Is basicall…

“Anytime you apply a rule too universally, it turns into an anti-pattern“. Quote from Will Larson found in another HN post ( https://review.firstround.com/unexpected-anti-patterns-…

My main advice would be to obfuscate those identifiers in a way that you can use the semantics in the very specific system do want/intend to, but prevent the rest of the organizati…

> Nor does it account for the effectiveness it bought the project in the meantime. This is a great point! I should have mentioned in the article, but in the examples mentioned part…