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John Mitchell retweeted
You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
John Mitchell retweeted
When you’re stuck, ask yourself: what’s the simplest, worst version of this I can whip out in 15 minutes?
• Free-flow shitty first draft of a blog post
• 5-slide presentation with no design flourish
• Messy project mindmap in your notebook
Put a timer on and give it a try :)
Testing matters! Hiring competent people matters! // Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03…
One Second PM: "SORT ACTIONS BY DOWNSTREAM CONSEQUENCES" - e.g. everyone fixes CI/CD or team issues! // Build time is a collective responsibility yoyo-code.com/build-time-is-…
Finding critical bugs in 4 minutes vs NOT finding it in 40k HOURS! This is great! // Deterministic Simulation Testing for Our Entire SaaS - WarpStream - Stream More, Manage Less warpstream.com/blog/determin…
Linting is great for feedback: very fast! Generally narrow scope // API Linting Levels | LornaJane lornajane.net/posts/2024/api…
Monoliths have a *lot* of advantages, like coherent testing // What Is a Modular Monolith? milanjovanovic.tech/blog/wha…
Excellent and useful Git commands, including `sparse-checkout`, great for speeding up CICD! // Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using | Martin Heinz | Personal Website & Blog martinheinz.dev/blog/109
Cookiecutter has been very successful in Python world. Now there's a DevOps equivalent! <3 // Introducing Boilerplate. An open source, cross-platform project… | by Yevgeniy Brikman | Mar, 2024 | Gruntwork blog.gruntwork.io/introducin…
John Mitchell retweeted
Years of combing through player feedback for RimWorld made a huge difference. No intermediaries; we just read the forum posts and Discord messages directly. See enough data points and you can discern the trends pretty clearly without formal metrics.
Alex gives tons of real-world ways to have fast, secure, efficient builds! Running two months of tests gives lots of insight :) // The state of Arm CI for the CNCF actuated.dev/blog/cncf-arm-m…
getting container resources right is valuable but tricky. Here's a great solution! // Right sizing VMs for GitHub Actions actuated.dev/blog/right-sizi…
The Joel Test 2022 – The Coding Craftsman codingcraftsman.wordpress.co…
OMG you can interactively control and *debug* Lambdas! <3 // Debugging AWS Lambda Functions with a Reverse Shell · Bits and Cloud bitsand.cloud/posts/reverse-…
What are the business consequnces of things breaking in your cluster? Invest! // Learnings From Our 8 Years Of Kubernetes In Production| by Anders Jönsson | Feb, 2024 | Medium medium.com/@.anders/learning…
Tests (and all types of Feedback) are an *investment*. If the business doesn't believe they'll pay off, then that's fine. Tests aren't free. // Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests | nicole@web ntietz.com/blog/too-much-of-…
Commit messages matter! Everyone becomes smarter <3 // My favourite Git commit | dhwthompson.com dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favo…
John Mitchell retweeted
I'm presenting my "Modular monoliths" session this morning, for the first time in a couple of years. Things like Spring Modulith and TestContainers make some of the concepts easier, but fundamentally I don't feel the world has moved on.
Excellent, extremely clear real-world Django with ECS and Terraform and many trimmings! h/t @MikeHerman // Deploying Django to AWS ECS with Terraform | TestDriven.io testdriven.io/blog/deploying…
