Albert Hilazo

He/Him. Software Developer. Tweets in english/catalan/spanish.

[Vaughn Vernon @VaughnVernon]

@ardalis The 5 Laws of Estimates:

1. D
2. O
3. N
4. '
5. T

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

In one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, there's a scene where a planet is doomed — so they divide society into three groups to evacuate:

#1: the best and brightest
#2: management consultants and marketing execs
#3: builders and doers

The planet sends off Ship 2 first, convincing them they are the best folks to start populating a new world.

But then you slowly realize that Ships 1 and 3 never actually intend to follow behind them... because the original planet has never actually been in danger.

They just wanted the consultants gone. 😂

[Arian van Putten @ProgrammerDude]

cat is the most misused thing by programmers new to linux. I cringe every time someone uses it wrong in a bash script. Thread below with proper uses of cat only

[Albert Hilazo @albhilazo]

@dawning_crow Would love to have "ramen capybaras" back in stock! ♥️

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized ENTIRELY within your kitchen?

[Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh]

The majority of layoffs lately are the result, in large part, of overreach and overcommitment for the smallest chances of growth and gains. When it fails the people at the bottom that have invested most suffer. If it succeeds, the people at the top that invest the least benefit.

[Albert Hilazo @albhilazo]

Evergreen tweet

[Fear the Phantom (game in bio) @Phantom_TheGame]

As a way to encourage the younger generation to try out programming, most of the keywords in C# have been permanently renamed.

This should increase the amount of younger game developers coming the next few years.

[🪽🐚𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆🐚🪽 @FedericoS15190]

For my english speaking buds in here, to let y'all know what's happening in my country:

At 9 PM today Javier Milei came in via national broadcast to announce the nullifying, by a DNU ("Necessity & Urgency Decree" - so a presidential edict), of around 300 laws, featuring...

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

The conference is sponsored in part by @awscloud, both in terms of money as well as their implicit support by way of not making CloudFormation good.

[David Amador 🐙 @DJ_Link]

let's never forget this is how the great Iwata handled the poor reception of Wii U, not with layoffs, but by cutting his own wage.

[Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @theastralj]

If you fuck up badly enough that nine hundred of your own employees lose their jobs, you should be laid off too

[Dara @daraladje]

ChatGPT becoming more human by the day

[taz skylar @skylar_taz]

De pequeño nunca oia a nadie con mi acento en la tele. Agradezco a todos los que apoyaron el doblaje y espero poder oir a mas voces de mas sitios a lo largo de mi vida, siendo representados (:

[Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit 🚀 @lexrodba]

Spain has three different timezones: one for the peninsula (CEST), one for the Canary Islands (one hour less) and one for the fascists (70 years less).

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[Cesare 🇵🇸 @AutRomaAutNihil]

"En realidad esto del fascismo dejó de interesarme cuando descubrí que no iba de caballos."

[Albert Hilazo @albhilazo]

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[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

CAT_ Es col·loca l’icosaedre de la torre de Mateu!
D’aquest element, un cop finalitzada la torre, en sorgirà la figura del tetramorf, en aquest cas la figura humana amb el llibre i les ales.