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I’ve written about what you’re testing before.

Release stabilization is traditionally the period at the end of a development cycle where the team minimizes change and spends time fixing things and making sure the result is stable.

I’ve talked about best practices a bunch of times.

I recently had the opportunity to work on a greenfield project.

The Definition of Done is an important part of the software development process.

Before today’s topic, a little housekeeping.

If you’re looking for the All Models Are Wrong that was here by mistake, just follow this link.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a mechanical/aerospace engineer by training.

I goofed.

There are endless debates online about the relative merits of code reviews/pull requests vs Ensemble/Mob/Pair programming.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.

“Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer’s mind.”

I’ve talked about user stories and ISBAT before.

There are lots of ways to present information.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer by training, and plane geek.

One of the questions that gets asked a lot when you’re working on somethings is “When will it be done?”

I’ve mentioned Gergely Orosz before.

As I mentioned the other day, I say “It depends” a lot.

DRY, or Don’t Repeat Yourself is a good rule of thumb.

When you’re running code in production, metrics are important.

We say a test passes when the results are as expected and that it fails when one or more of them is not.

I’ve talked about Autonomy, Alignment, Purpose, and Urgency before.

Comments are important.

if all you have is a hammer, all you see are nails. – Kaplan, Maslow, et al.

What do you think of when you think of effective software engineers?

When I think about rubber ducks I think of two things.

Before I get into today’s topic, a little flashback.

It’s the last day of the year and time for my annual look back.

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.” – Donald Knuth What does that statement even mean?

Today is the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere.

Yesterday was our 14th annual Latke Fry.

When writing tests, whether they’re TDD test, Unit tests, Integration tests, or Canary tests, the first thing you need to be sure of is what you’re testing.

Once upon a time, in the before times, when people worked in offices and went to conferences in person, there was a conference called FFS Tech Conference.

Speaking of change and staying the same, today is the anniversary of the mother of all demos. 54 years ago Douglas Engelbart got on stage at the ACM/IEEE Fall Joint Computer Conference and defined the environment we’re living in today.

Properties are more than squares on a Monopoly™ board.

November seems to have slipped away, but I’m back now.

Some bugs are bugs of commission.

Strange Loop Strange is, according to its own website, a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow’s technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed sy…

It’s been a while since I posted anything.

I’ve talked about the Broken Windows theory before.

We’re all here trying to add value.

I’ve been a developer for a long time now.

Doing one thing and doing it well is The Unix Way.

I’m a platform and tool builder.

You never know where things will back up.

You can use all the tools, not just the large blade.

Consent and Consensus.

The Dungeon Master of Engineering has been on Twitter for just over 4 years now.

Can this rock really think?

I like types.