Hypotheses

I am not a fan of story points.

There is a recurring complaint about the uselessness of software development (or engineering) managers in tech.

This article, like many things, started as a comment made on Hacker News: As the parent said: I guess the “No True Agile” crowd is as alive and well as they were 10 years ago.

One of the odd discourses in our industry is the value of documentation1.

I have a lot more to write here, in more detail, but I have needed to describe this concept enough times that it’s valuable to get the bare minimum out there.

I was going through a practice interview problem and I had returned to it because I wanted to experiment when it struck me that I’d left myself a comment that I never deleted.

I don’t want this to be portrayed as a review of the book, because it is unfair to review a book seventeen years after its publish date.

Like many programmers and people exposed to Silicon Valley culture, I’ve noticed an emphasis on accelerated learning techniques, and “hacking learning.”

Over the last few years, this is a set of documentation advice I’ve come back to frequently.

On my last attempt to start a block, back in 2014, I took from some advice I had given in a Hacker News thread.