MVP

I’m not sure about MVP (Minimum Viable Product). I get the concept, and I agree with it—it’s an important concept within Agile, but I feel it gets misunderstood in software development as an excuse to let bad code through. That’s not entirely fair – the bad code, or rather, the shortcut code, often goes through……

Trying this again

Hold your breath. …oh, and adding a few posts that I’ve written in the past.

Performance Budgets

Infrequently Noted I’m on a mission at the moment to bring in performance budgets at work. Page load speed has been disregarded for such a long time that it’s become a revolution to even get people thinking about it. Yet PB would complement all our KPIs – Engineering Quality and User Experience, among others. The……

The Main Thread

When should you be using Web Workers? – DasSur.ma Very interesting article about workers and getting non UI tasks off the main thread – with justification (modern “cheap” phones), questioning modern UI frameworks that do all their virtual DOM diffing on the main thread, and some examples on how to shift off that model. In……

Dismissal

There’s a lot of complete dismissal of religion and god(s) when I chat with people. I’m not going to go into my beliefs here—At the moment I don’t assign myself to any religion. However, I do feel that these folk, because they don’t believe in god(s) are also denouncing many forms of spirituality because it’s……

Endgame

https://www.monbiot.com/2019/05/15/net-curtains/ Literally every aspect of everything we do, eat, consume, is industrialised beyond sustainability. Owned by the very very few, supported by government, with propaganda fed back to us paid for by us. Smile. How can this go on? How much longer can we sit here paying our mortgages, contributing to this by enjoying consumerism……

Sleep

https://youtu.be/5MuIMqhT8DM Wow. Sleep. You NEED sleep. Without it you will not perform well, at anything. In my previous post I talked about imposter syndrome. I’m having a bout of it now. I am also not sleeping particularly well at the moment. It’s only been a few days – not weeks or anything – but I……

Moments of self doubt

I’m growing more confident but as work and pressures of deadlines build up I become uneasy. Doubt creeps into my thoughts. I have a feeling that says that I only got here by piggybacking on the success of others. I’m just a bystander that gets caught in the flow and somehow people think I was……

On being an introvert

I spend lots of time fighting against my own traits. 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,……