"What if we took 2-3 months to rewrite the whole thing? Start from scratch, fix all the mistakes we know about, and we will have a clean state, all our problems solved."
There's a divide between engineers who thought about doing this, and those who did it, and it's a big one.
Yesterday while we discussed my trip to Ghent, my colleague mentioned an art deco pool near Namur that was converted to be the local library. When losing a pool, I think this is het best thing that can happen, Bibliothèque d'Andenne:
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📸 Florent Marot
The scariest thing to do as a Founder is to put your product out there. We've spent hours, months, maybe even years working on it. It's beautiful. Perfect.
@kittybonsai enjoy @kittybonsai! I ordered the Sun for your next holiday, so make sure you enjoy for this time every minute of the cool-chill-out weather
A lot of folks want a map to Staff Engineer, and just as many Staff Engineers want to better understand their role. Towards that end, I'm working on a small project to collect folks' stories of reaching and operating as staff-plus engineers
https://t.co/CYUB736RJJ
Should software engineers at all levels lead projects?
Any experienced managers know they should answer "it depends" for any yes/no questions.
My take is that "it depends, but at better companies, they do." A thread on why and when not just tech leads leading works: