Software developer & writeabouterer. Hot takes and grumbling into the void. 👉 https://teapaw.org/t.co/k489cIc1J1 👉 https://teapaw.org/t.co/Qx1ncDWJFb
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Tom Dalling retweeted
In case you were wondering “will Scrum help us beat our competition.”
It was celebrated as a success at Skype but our more nimble competitors out-executed us without it.
More on why Scrum is absent from fast-moving and nimble companies:
blog.pragmaticengineer.com/p…
Tom Dalling retweeted
but the Russian army violated agreements even with the Red Cross mission, blocked the exit, and blew up another bridge to prevent civilians from escaping.
Tom Dalling retweeted
COWORKER: we need to find the root cause asap
ME: *takes long drag* the root cause is that our processes are not robust enough to prevent a person from making this mistake
COWORKER: amy please not right now
Tom Dalling retweeted
This is why @bethcodes calls the under-graduate degree “pre-development" by analogy with "pre-med"
Tom Dalling retweeted
Code retention/churn over the last ~15 years for Clojure and Scala's codebases.
Source: download.clojure.org/papers/…
Tom Dalling retweeted
🚨 RORO Melbourne is tonight (online) 🚨
🖖 Come along to know all the intricacy of RSpec from talks by @saramic and @tom_dalling .
Excited to see you all soon!! ❤️❤️
meetup.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Oce…
Tom Dalling retweeted
💎🎙Hello Hello lovely people!🎙💎
RORO Melbourne is this Wednesday 🎉
If you have a hitch for a lighting talk or even a full-length, reach out to us, there’s still room for you.🤗
Get ready for some exciting talks from @tom_dalling and @Quintrino 🍾🥳
meetup.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Oce…
Tom Dalling retweeted
If Gordan Ramsay came to your tech company:
"THIS CODE IS RAW!!"
- @tom_dalling at @roromelb
Tom Dalling retweeted
Most software practices & tools were created by people on high-trust teams of developers aligned around a shared vision.
The tool or practice is heralded as a success, then adopted by 100x as many low-trust teams. They fail.
The tool is blamed, not the distrust.
New tool time.
Tom Dalling retweeted
NSW Premier @GladysB on Victoria's lockdown: “It’s much easier to lock down because you don’t have to worry about anything, it’s much more difficult to let people move around when the virus is circulating.” #COVID19Vic #MelbourneLockdown #KJshow
Tom Dalling retweeted
Message passing wasn't his original intent! Just a 'lil bit of him changing his mind after 30ish years
Also a lot of his ideas of OOP have be situated in the constraints of the Dynabook environment: hillelwayne.com/post/alan-ka…
Tom Dalling retweeted
Where are all the modern software design books?
There was a huge burst of creativity around software design & analysis from the late 1980s up to the early 2000s (All the OOD ones, GoF, Fowler, Martin, Evans, HtDP etc) and then there's not been much since (except for DDD stuff)
Tom Dalling retweeted
Why did Apple not test what happens when a user supplies “True” as their last name? Is it incompetence? I don’t think so. I think the explanation is simpler: it’s not feasible.
tomdalling.com/blog/testing/…
Tom Dalling retweeted
🐦 New RubyPigeon Post: Object#tap And How To Use It
More than anyone ever wanted to know about the `#tap` method.
rubypigeon.com/posts/object-…
Tom Dalling retweeted
My annual Ruby changelog (for 3.0 this year!) is ready: Full, comprehensive, well-structured, and open. rubyreferences.github.io/rub…
Tom Dalling retweeted
#TomsDataOnion made me cry tears of joy, made me rethink my life. I'm shocked that the people involved are
still walking free in society and I just don't want to
talk about it -- not even with my therapist...
Thank you for this nice journey @tom_dalling!