I spend lots of time fighting against my own straits. While others are pitting their thoughts across in a meeting I have delved deeply into the first point, losing some of the later stuff. Not moving fast, considering everything and formulating my answer. Does this work in a fast paced Agile environment? How do I [...]
It’s not in the paper, it’s on the wall
When I travel I like to look at the graffiti and stickers. It gives you an idea of what the protests are. What is going on in the underground without necessarily being in the papers or in the mainstream media outlets. Here in Konstantz I’m seeing a lot of green revolution messages. Veganism, extinction rebellion, [...]
Open Source Abuse
(Open) source of anxiety - Increment: Open Source This talks about the reliance put on Open Source projects. Some of these projects are vital to the community, in this case Babel, and there is very little thanks back from the people who use it. When I say people, I mean large corporations who don’t offer [...]
Physical Social Health Education
“Once, in Physical Social Health Education, we learnt about drugs, the type that you put up your nose, there was someone who sneezed and part of the middle of their nose fell out.” My son came out with this, 8. I wonder how all this stuff is framed. I wonder how they talk about marijuana, [...]
The London Rush
Today I went to apply for my Dutch passport. I’m Dutch by rights because my dad is Dutch When I was born and was Dutch at my 18th birthday, despite me being born in England and holding an English passport all my life. This has been months in the planning. The application is quite involved [...]
Fat Cat
The cat at the top tells the product owners what they want. The fat cat is not a software engineer. The product owner tells the engineers what they want. The engineers bend over backwards to accommodate the will of the product owner because they are not on an equal level respect wise. The product owners [...]
Fight the Power
Today I wrote this. I’m quite pleased with it, 😁. You see, we have a new codebase and if I let happen to it what has happened to the current codebase I wouldn’t be doing my job. The homepage exists now, it is not complete, it is not released, but it already has tech debt. [...]
Adulting
We went to dinner at some friend’s. Their house. We always have a good time. We talk about grown up things like buying houses and mortgages and kids growing up and work and things like that. And it’s nice. I don’t feel old because of it, I feel responsible and like I have some words [...]
Workplace Silos
When I worked in a web agency I/we often moaned about our clients. Their lack of understanding, the difficulties in communication, etc. I though that when I was part of a bigger company, all working on the same product, this would be different. It’s the same. The clients just happen to be in the same [...]
The New Facebook
Facebook for Developers - Building the New facebook.com with React, GraphQL and Relay I love this presentation as the topics covered are exactly what I’m thinking about at the moment. Facebook is obviously a far larger application with much more data to deal with, but I’d love to apply these learnings into the workflow and [...]
