Luís R.

@goblindegook
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Opinions my own, unless borrowed.
LocationRome, Italy
Sitehttps://goblindegook.com
Luís R.Jul 1, 2025

I wrote a thing.

https://goblindegook.com/2025/two-days-two-hours-test-driven-development/

Two Days in Two Hours

On moving fast and not breaking anything.

goblindegook
Luís R.Jan 13, 2024

Cancel culture has gone too far!

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/12/politics/arizona-election-director-maga-invs/index.html

Luís R.Dec 15, 2023
Bill CaputoDec 14, 2023
Folks who are not included in the decision-making process will (at best) endure those decisions, not embrace them. #leadershipTips
Luís R.Dec 15, 2023

Earlier this month I had the chance to talk about waste with Giuseppe Silletti of the Extreme Software Adventures podcast. Watch it here:

https://youtu.be/xcEO_On6z6s

Episode #2 - How tech leaders can empower their teams (with Luís Rodrigues)

YouTube
Luís R.Dec 1, 2023

Amazing that this book was published more than 30 years ago and is still relevant now (perhaps more than ever) in the age of computational photography and AI image synthesis.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631600/the-reconfigured-eye/

The Reconfigured Eye

Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical...

MIT Press
Luís R.Nov 30, 2023
FINALLY.
Luís R.Nov 28, 2023
Enema CowboyNov 27, 2023
@thomasfuchs
Luís R.Nov 3, 2023
Another spot-on prediction.
Luís R.Nov 1, 2023

I wrote a thing.

https://www.newstore.com/articles/the-wastes-of-product-engineering/

The Wastes of Product Engineering

Product engineering is wasteful. Deep dive into the 8 wastes of Lean Manufacturing and how they manifest themselves in software development.

NewStore
Luís R.Oct 18, 2023
Jason GormanOct 16, 2023

Small, autonomous teams of mostly highly-skilled developers, working closely with customers, doing frequent small releases of working software that's being continually tested.

Or...

Big teams of mostly inexperienced developers being micromanaged by people with no dev experience, working several degrees removed from customers, doing large infrequent releases of buggy software that gets tested late in the day by a separate team.

It's fascinating to watch orgs deliberately choosing the latter.