Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘

Moved off the site... find me at
🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘🐘
🦋🦋🦋 @kruler.bsky.social 🦋🦋🦋

[Adis Nadarević @Ridjobrki]

Pa dobro... Valjaće nam u nokaut fazi odmoran Muharemović. 🤔

[Zwë 🍟 @ZwebackHD]

I've heard a lot of "World Cup" songs and national team anthems over the last couples months but Bosnia just set the bar for all future releases. When the WC ends, THIS is the song I'll remember. Idemo Bosno!! 🇧🇦

[Bill Clerico @billclerico]

Claude Code is Farmville for 40 year old former software engineers

[Bill Staples @bstaples]

For those teams looking for alternatives to the GitHub meltdown, check out this recent customer chat I had with the software team behind Rivian/Volkswagen. They run GitLab dedicated, which means they get all the benefits of SaaS, but with dedicated infrastructure and isolation at enormous scale. One of the keys to our success: you are always in control of how and where you run GitLab. GitLab serves more than half of the fortune 100, and hundreds of thousands of other organizations around the world, why not yours?
https://t.co/SvgOC7ym2W

[Kit Langton @kitlangton]

It is time → https://t.co/YlX841ArFS.

2026, the year of 𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝.

I'm extremely proud of how this turned out. There are many chapters to add, but I do hope you enjoy what's there so far. Let me know what you think. 🫡

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

@SD27887008 Also heard and felt in Wannsee.

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

We did it: 🇩🇪Germany will OPPOSE Chat Control! 🥳

Thanks everyone for writing to the ministers. 🫶

#ChatControl will not get a majority in the EU Council - at least for now.

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

Oh it looks like https://t.co/nbStPlLDIP is covering the latest #RubyDrama even though @rubydramas appears to be removed.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Learned helplessness happens when you are regularly exposed to punishment for things you have no control over. You learn that punishment is inevitable, no matter what you do. The result is passivity. You don’t bother to try to improve because there’s no point. The random punishments will continue, regardless. That does happen, but it’s actually rare.

More often, when I see managers roll their eyes and complain about the team’s “learned helplessness," the teams have no control over what is asked of them. That’s actual helplessness. I find it ironic that the eye-rolling managers most often are the ones who create the helplessness through bad management.

I once had the misfortune of working for a company full of eye-rollers. The teams were forced to march through a backlog created quarterly by management without team involvement. Teams were punished if they didn’t complete the allocated stories. There was insane pressure to deliver on a schedule decided by management without team input. All the teams were forced to march in lock step and to a perverted form of Scrum that seemed designed to eliminate all goodness (& the teams knew that). People were fired by a particularly abusive “Agile Change Manager” if they pushed back or deviated from the orthodoxy. People were literally terrified of her. The control even extended to code. E.g., 75% test coverage was mandated, even though test coverage had zero impact on reported defects, most of which were caused by the system doing the wrong thing, not bugs.

Needless to say, the teams didn’t bother to try to improve. This is actual helplessness. They weren’t permitted to do anything that would actually help in any significant way, so why bother? When nothing improved, managers blamed the teams for their “learned helplessness,” and bonuses went down. Who, exactly, did those managers think created that helplessness? Management complained that the teams wouldn’t act autonomously, while punishing the teams that tried. That’s not going to work.

So, how do you fight back? At this same organization, a group of three teams got together and essentially formed their own organization within an organization. They walled off a corner of a hard-to-get-to space, with portable whiteboards. Entrance was by invitation only.

Within those walls, real Agile happened, but nobody—particularly that Change-Manger bully—knew what went on behind the walls. They were the most effective teams in the organization, so nobody bothered them. It’s an indicator of exactly how bad things were that management didn’t say, “Wow, we all need to be that good. What are they doing?” Management was threatened, and just ignored them. Those teams were lucky that they weren't all fired, but they were too productive for that to be an option.

I found it interesting that no other teams emulated those three highly successful teams. That may have been learned helplessness, but I think that plain-old fear was a bigger factor—actual helplessness.

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

@adymitruk I've spent so much time playing this as a kid.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Tobacco kills, no matter how it’s packaged.

Help us to stop the manipulation: https://t.co/vmcec1pHLv

#WorldNoTobaccoDay

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

@sanjinbuzo zeljanica

[Berlin Companion @kreuzberged]

No other city in Europe can compete: #Berlin is the greenest capital on the continent. With its woods and parks, it is unsurpassed.

#OTD 1923 one of the largest of the parks opened.

Berlin Calendar reports🙂

https://t.co/d043KG4UV8

[Johannes Schickling @schickling]

After 4 years of work, I'm incredibly excited to introduce LiveStore, the next-gen data layer I'm building for Overtone.

It's based on reactive SQLite and has a built-in sync engine. Give it a try - would love your feedback!

[LiveStore @livestoredev]

Introducing LiveStore (beta)

LiveStore is a next-generation state management framework based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine.

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

https://t.co/h9JpdCBipn

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

@nikolasburk @schickling @EffectTS_ I have been using this one as a getting started: https://t.co/FIdWaImCZ9

[Zuhayeer Musa @zuhayeer]

Your backend's final form

[Armin – moved to 🐘🐘🐘 @[email protected] 🐘🐘 @Krule]

https://t.co/NKwgqenQah

[Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account @Calvinn_Hobbes]

Now isn’t this the truth! #CalvinandHobbes