John

Domain Modelling, Systems Design, Architecture, and Software Engineering - Kotlin, Java and Typescript. Piano and Music Theory. Cat person.

[John @JohnAqel]

There may be only two hard things in Computer Science, but there is only one hard thing in Software Engineering: Other people's abstractions.

[John @JohnAqel]

This is the “leapfrog” era of Formula 1. 🤷‍♂️

[Loftwah @loftwah]

This gave me a giggle.

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@Grady_Booch After thinking about it, Layered Architecture is kinda like Lasagne!

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@Grady_Booch So Paris was built by Italians? 😂

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Thinking of all those people unlucky enough to be born on Christmas.

[John @JohnAqel]

@DarrenBaldwin03 SQL isn't hard, but it can be tedious.

[John @JohnAqel]

@adymitruk LOL How do you even know Kath and Kim?

[John @JohnAqel]

@cagataycivici @bonomite @primevue Woah, what actually happened to IceFaces? I remember using them heavily in the late 2000s, but ended up transitioning to PrimeFaces for a while before moving on to pure JS UIs in the 2010s.

[Sebastian Sellmair @Sellmair]

After 3 years of blood, sweat and tears:
Kotlin Multiplatform is finally stable 🎉

I never thought that it will take us so much time to pull this off. Let me explain what we did 🧵

[John @JohnAqel]

@ICBMRV Woah, so price-gougey.

[kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze]

I've walked 1-2 hrs per day on this for a week.

here's why it works and it'll get me in shape:

it's tied to something I do 5-6 days a week: work
it's right there under my work desk, so naturally I stand on it and I might as well press play

working out / walking outside is not tied to any other habit. you gotta choose and do it, and on most days you won't choose it.

long live the desk treadmill 🤘

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

No, our company is not like a family.

Stop telling me your company is like a family.

It’s not. When was the last time you fired someone from your family?

“Son, your mother and I have been talking, and we’ve decided to outsource ‘taking out the trash’. I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go.”

At Netflix, for example, we never thought of ourselves as a family. We always considered ourselves more like a sports team. And not a Little League team, where everyone gets to play and at the end of the season everyone gets a trophy.

No, we were a professional team playing at the highest level, and my responsibility as manager wasn’t to make sure everyone got playing time. It was to make sure I put the best possible team on the field for every game. I did that because I owed that to the team owners. I owed it to the fans. And most importantly, I owed it to the other players.

I learned a long time ago that what the best players want is not just a friendly attitude in the locker room. They want to know that everyone excels at their position. They want to know that everyone will be trying as hard as they can. They want to win.

That’s why a manager’s job is not just to hire well and motivate your team to be the best they can be. It’s also to make sure that when someone isn’t holding their end, you’re the person who sits them down and explains why you’re sending them down to the minors.

This is especially hard in a startup, because in almost every case, the players you start with aren’t going to be the ones you finish with. At the beginning, you’re looking for generalists. Since you don’t yet know what they will need to be great at, you want people who are good at a lot of things. You want people who are comfortable with the fact that their job description is going to change weekly. You want people who are motivated by the adventure, rather than by stability.

That first team is going to give you everything they have. They’ll leave better paying jobs with great benefits to work for a fraction of their salary. They’ll work nights and weekends. They’ll do everything you ask—and then some.

So it’s especially brutal when your company is just starting to take off, and you have to sit someone down and tell them that they won’t be coming with you on the next stage of the journey. Or that you’re bringing in a more experienced executive over them.

That part is neither easy nor fun. But it’s the job. And if I can’t do that, I don’t deserve to be in my position either.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Just an average C Developer testing his Audio Software

[John @JohnAqel]

@BenLesh @rickyfm @dan_abramov Boring frameworks so that you can build the most exciting things 😉

[Chris Richardson @crichardson]

Specifically, DevOps is a set of cultural, technical, and organizational principles and practices for delivering software rapidly, frequently and reliably.

Tools can help. But what matters are the principles and practices.

[Mark Gee @theartofnight]

Last night on the Wellington South Coast the aurora made an appearance, and it certainly didn't disappoint!

[John @JohnAqel]

@sebi_io The Hexacube.

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Kubernetes but it’s 200 banks accounts with $249,999 in each one.