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Is AI a Silver Bullet? – “This is the trade off we have seen before: eliminating the accidental complexity of authoring code has less value than we think because code spends most of its time in maintenance, so the maintainability of the code is more important than the speed to author it.”

September 4th, 2024

What exactly is “developer experience”?

Press Pass I’m speaking at the SHIFT conference next week in Zadar, Croatia. Here’s some questions they asked me ahead of time for their ShiftMag outlet. I’m not sure why, but I didn’t send the third one in and saved it up for this here newsletter. (1) Where do you stand in the DevOps vs.…

September 12th, 2023

Lines of Code – When there’s no perfect and easy measure, you have to (“end up”?) use the ones you have that are good enough.

July 21st, 2023

5 ways to escape technical debt, and stop making more of it

Technical debt is the accumulation of compromises on quality to save time – postponed tests, outdated software, features over process. Five ways to work it down gradually, from Bryan Ross.

April 3rd, 2023

🗂 Link: Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt

Debt powers our economy, and technical debt powers your business. If we look at it that way, it’s a lot less threatening to label all your code as “tech debt.” Source: Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt

August 27th, 2019

🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com

De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ‘ Bookings burn-out machine’ from the Saturday supplement, which can also be found online – the developers complain about programming language Perl, which forms the basis of the online platform and which they believe is being held too rigidly.…

August 13th, 2019