Irony Man

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Thoughts on how the materials we choose to develop software impact the properties of that software and have an effect on how engineers work with it. https://www.devcycle.co.uk/material-world-1/
Living in a material world… part 1

How the ‘materials’ of development affect software

DevCycle
Usually I support fail-fast as a principal but maybe data validation in this case would have led to the ability to reject only the conflicting flight plans? BBC News - Air traffic chaos caused by 'one in 15 million' event
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66723586
Air traffic chaos caused by 'one in 15 million' event

The UK's air traffic control system shut itself down after software confusion over an unusual flight path.

BBC News
This article could have been written in 2009-10. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/07/london-south-east-competitiveness-index-investors . As someone who lives in NE England it's depressing but not news!
London pulls away from rest of Britain in competitiveness index

Capital and south-east become more attractive to investors as other areas fall behind, academic study finds

The Guardian
I'm available for interim or fractional CTO roles. I have over 35 years of software development experience and over 25 years of senior technical leadership experience. I specialise in decreasing time to market while decreasing failure rates using your existing software engineers. #leadership #startups
Should I hire 10 Software Engineers or one x10 Software Engineer?

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I'm available for interim or fractional CTO roles. I have over 35 years of software development experience and over 25 years of senior technical leadership experience. I specialise in decreasing time to market while decreasing failure rates using your existing software engineers. #leadership #startups

This is almost as stupid as measuring performance by LoC!
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RT @GergelyOrosz
“We just had shadow layoffs, and the number of PRs and number of design docs seemed to count into who was ranked as a low performer and let go.

So now people are creating tons of PRs - eg 1 PR/unit test - and design docs for every tiny change.”

Not surprising, and yet tragic.
https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1632369152626159616

Gergely Orosz on Twitter

““We just had shadow layoffs, and the number of PRs and number of design docs seemed to count into who was ranked as a low performer and let go. So now people are creating tons of PRs - eg 1 PR/unit test - and design docs for every tiny change.” Not surprising, and yet tragic.”

Twitter

RT @GergelyOrosz
“We just had shadow layoffs, and the number of PRs and number of design docs seemed to count into who was ranked as a low performer and let go.

So now people are creating tons of PRs - eg 1 PR/unit test - and design docs for every tiny change.”

Not surprising, and yet tragic.

RT @krisajenkins
I'm happy to say I've just been promoted at Confluent. I'm now a Staff Developer Advocate.

I asked if I could be a Broadsword Developer Advocate instead, but they said a mage class can't be trusted with melee weapons, so Staff it is. 😊