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“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system” - Galls Law The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real Why Etsy Sucks (and why good markets don’t) Cisco engineer resigns then nukes 16k WebEx accounts, 456 VMs Mind the Moat, a 7 Powers Review Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours Shift IT from projects to products: Part 1- What is a product? Stop Asking for Feedback Are We Really Engineers?

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." -Eagleson's Law Announcing .NET 5.0 Troy Hunt: Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter Solid Relevance Options, Not Roadmaps - Signal v. Noise How We Ended up with Git Facebook CCPA compliance challenges: Limited Data Use We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found (samcurry.net) Dare to be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it | 8th Light

"A management obsessed with productivity usually has little patience for the quiet time essential to profound creativity." —Gordon MacKenzie Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand Arrested Japanese stalker used pupil image reflections - A Japanese man arrested on suspicion of stalking a female pop idol had looked at reflections of her pupils in photos she shared on social media and used Google Street View to find where she lived Self-Organization - Scary but Powerful Sustaining Performance Under Extreme Stress Reimagining virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning Lightweight Technology Governance Corporate psychopaths common and can wreak havoc in business, researcher says – They are on to me. Adapting #Accelerate to Development

"My code can’t be tidier than my thinking. The purpose of my tidying is to clarify my thinking by manipulating the code. The code ends up better, but because I understand more not because I somehow forced it to be better in spite of my confusion." -Kent Beck Advocates on Rider – Uncovering the IDE That Gets You Places – Webinar Recording Designing for a Future That’s Hard to Imagine Story Points Revisited – “I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I’m sorry now” When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself Software architecture as a function of trust Mirror your iOS Device Screen on Windows with the free 5KPlayer Amazon Honeycode Scientists used IBM's quantum computer to reverse time, possibly breaking a law of physics Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills – “A new study from NCSU and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring

“teams at Amazon are long lived service teams. Amazon does NOT do “projects”. Funding is continuous. This ensures attention to operational quality, reduces tech debt, avoids lock-in to legacy technologies” – Adrian Cockcroft Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance    The theory of constraints Visual Studio Codespaces Creating an event-driven architecture out of existing, non-event-driven systems The Majestic Monolith can become The Citadel. Working remotely builds organizational resiliency Let's Stop the 5G Hysteria: Understanding Hoaxes and Disinformation Campaigns

“With the possible exception of the four #Accelerate metrics, a metrics driven approach to evaluation is rarely effective. As Deming says: It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth." - Allen Holub Spotify doesn’t use “the Spotify model” - "the Spotify model is revealed as a collection of cross-functional teams with too much autonomy and a poor management structure. Don’t fall for it" The Elephant in the Architecture - why business value should be treated as an architectural attribute Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices How remote work impacts collaboration: findings from our team Quarantine work is not Remote work Nullable Reference Types: Migrating a Codebase – A Look at New Language Features in C# 8 ReSharper Ultimate 2020.1: Improved Support for C# 8.0 and C++20, Dataflow Analysis of Integer Values, and Much More Patterns for Managing Source Code Br

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." -Eagleson's Law Announcing .NET 5.0 Troy Hunt: Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter Solid Relevance Options, Not Roadmaps - Signal v. Noise How We Ended up with Git Facebook CCPA compliance challenges: Limited Data Use We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found (samcurry.net) Dare to be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it | 8th Light

"My code can’t be tidier than my thinking. The purpose of my tidying is to clarify my thinking by manipulating the code. The code ends up better, but because I understand more not because I somehow forced it to be better in spite of my confusion." -Kent Beck Advocates on Rider – Uncovering the IDE That Gets You Places – Webinar Recording Designing for a Future That’s Hard to Imagine Story Points Revisited – “I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I’m sorry now” When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself Software architecture as a function of trust Mirror your iOS Device Screen on Windows with the free 5KPlayer Amazon Honeycode Scientists used IBM's quantum computer to reverse time, possibly breaking a law of physics Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills – “A new study from NCSU and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engin

“teams at Amazon are long lived service teams. Amazon does NOT do “projects”. Funding is continuous. This ensures attention to operational quality, reduces tech debt, avoids lock-in to legacy technologies” – Adrian Cockcroft Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance    The theory of constraints Visual Studio Codespaces Creating an event-driven architecture out of existing, non-event-driven systems The Majestic Monolith can become The Citadel. Working remotely builds organizational resiliency Let's Stop the 5G Hysteria: Understanding Hoaxes and Disinformation Campaigns