Tom Renner on My place to put things

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked.

This is part one of a series where I document how I’m making this site more interoperable with IndieWeb tools and standards.

In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator.

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked.

I’m starting to think that my toaster might have fallen in love with me.

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked.

TDD, BDD, DDD, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP… there’s a lot of ways to skin a cat write code in a professional environment.

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked.

Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating?

“Saying the quiet part out loud” is a phrase I’ve just made up, to describe a method of building alignment on practices within a team.

Anyone writing code professionally in December 2021 will remember the “fun” of the Log4J vulnerability.

“Institutional knowledge” - the information that a company collectively knows - is a familiar concept to anyone involved in hiring processes.

Kit Wilson writes in The Spectator about Facebook’s new venture into the Metaverse, a concept that most of us probably hadn’t heard of until last week.

Coming to grips with DevOps metrics In my team we have been considering ways to monitor our own performance, and finding some ways to contextualise our ongoing process and quality improvements.

Talk given at Codebar Festival.

Your work inbox is probably not a place that sparks joy.

Unfortunately since Elon shut down the Twitter APIs, the below method no longer works.

Last week I facilitated a session at XTC, where we discussed the new product development framework from Basecamp, Shape Up, led by Thomas Ankorn.

DISCLAIMER: This was not my idea - I picked it up from Jane Nicholson at an XTC event, who was introduced to it by Jess Gilbert (who in turn, I am told, got it from someone else).

I used to stress a lot about the “efficiency” of how I was using up all the minutes in my day.

In a team having knowledge that lives only in your head is a terrible thing.

I like being able to code wherever I am.

Agile tells us that the most critical thing for getting software right is not up front design, but getting something out there and used, and then incorporating feedback.

It is upsettingly easy to work hard without being productive.

A theme of the last few books I’ve read has been user testing.

Why do I want to have my own site?

Last week I went to a jobs event, recruiting for my company.