Nicolas Sénéchal

French-Australian loving good wine, good food and programming. Also Head of Engineering at PivotPL

[Eric Elliott @ericelliott_]

Keep UI components as minimal as you can. If you isolate business logic and side-effects from UI, everything gets easier.

[Rocky Horror Quotes @RHPS_Quotes]

He was a low down cheap little punk.

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

Last steps before releasing: organising observability, integrating with remaining external production systems and finishing a few more user stories. Very exciting!

[Teresa Torres @ttorres]

“Here’s the reality: We’ve trained engineers to want nothing to do with discovery. It’s our job to undo that training.” https://t.co/AE73oGWWZI #prodmgmt #ux

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

Delightful fun. Gitlab timing out on PR... https://t.co/K9vqqAORoD

[Nicholas C. Zakas @slicknet]

🧵 Hiring managers: there’s no reason to force people with 10+ years experience to take coding tests. You can’t last 10 years if you can’t ship code.

Here are some better approaches.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

As someone who hired many interns & entry-level engineers, 7 thoughts on this problem (thread)

1. Hiring juniors without someone to mentor them is a recipe for disaster: for the junior, the team, the company. Yes, they “get a chance”. And often burn out badly. Don’t do it.

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

@mr_beerkiss I think mine is 😅. Telling as well

[Cory House @housecor]

Summary: The solution to improving quality and fostering a testing culture isn't to add a dedicated tester.

The solution is to:
1. Agree on testing tooling
2. Configure it
3. Write a few example tests
4. Run them on CI
5. Require tests as part of the definition of done

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

. @Pivot_PL is hiring! We need a strong software engineer to join our development team and help us deliver our new products.

[Dan Laush @danlaush]

Project management

[Jeff Gothelf @jboogie]

“The way most organizations prioritize hiring and staffing when it comes to building digital products and services would make any outside observer believe that you only need one kind of activity to deliver great products to market — writing code. ” https://t.co/57yNPbTNIQ

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

Just finished @staceybarr's Prove It! https://t.co/OnXXuw2QQm Tough but interesting and inspiring reading over a couple of lockdowns and the start of a new job

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

A Design System without code backing it is just a Design Suggestion.

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

Note to self: how do you ensure there is enough spare capacity in your team in a start-up world?

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

@abolkog that's the most interesting part ;)

[Nicolas Sénéchal @Cubittuss]

Menu for this week: finish routing with CloudFront and route 53, finishing the student front-end implementation, gathering requirements for the admin console. Busy!

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

The DevTools CSS Grid & Flexbox editors are super helpful for previewing and authoring grid/flexbox properties. See https://t.co/cQu0jRplgO by @jecelynyeen to learn more.