Elizabeth Zagroba: Organizational Anarchist

At the Friends of Good Software last weekend, Christian Pfeiffer hosted a session about how to be a "good" staff engineer / lead engineer.

To shift a recent conversation away from the negative, Maaret Pyhäjärvi asked me and Alex Schladebeck to tell her about a colleague we enjoyed working with.

I forget which one of us said it.

When people see me taking notes, or see the notes afterwards, the most common reaction is "I couldn't do that."

After a few months of consulting for a team, they asked me what my recommendations were for them.

My team did a hackathon last week.

Occasionally I get asked "What drove you to start speaking at conferences?"

We're in a tough spot these days.

Ugly code can mean lots of things: code someone else wrote, code with inconsistent white space placement, code that takes up too many lines, code that requires too many command + clicks to parse, code that looks redundant.

Origin story I found the website No Vehicles in the Park through Mastodon.

What is exploratory testing?