August Alexandersson

Developer @ Agical. I also make tiny games at

[Loop One: Done @LoopOneDone]

Loop One: Demo. Now on Steam VR. Chill out in a relaxing environment. Build facilities, refine materials, and record everything to automate your own factory using drones and robots. Play the demo during Steam Next Fest.

Play demo 👉🏼 https://t.co/5lOkKrHLzE #SteamNextFest

[Jonas Sandstedt @jonassandstedt]

🎉 Huge news! My game "Loop One: Done" is out on the Meta Horizon Store in Early Access! Dive into a mixed-reality playground where you use drones and robots to create an efficient automated factory. Or create chaos! The choice is yours! ♾1️⃣✅
(link in thread)

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@allenholub IME the bottleneck to ”getting things done” in a team was never writing more lines of code. Theory of constraints tells us you only need to improve the bottleneck to improve the entire system. Whatever we are doing when writing code together, it’s improving that bottleneck!

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@mixpanel Can’t filter anything in the funnels page. Something seems down?

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@ianzelbo Dont get it. A single fully specced MacBook Pro costs more than the Vision Pro?

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@mattpocockuk ctrl+c

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@johncutlefish I think people have different ideas of what an Engineering Manager is. For many it’s already someone who is in the team working with the team. For others it’s more someone who manages people in many one/many teams.

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@MetaQuestVR Trombone Champion! That is gonna be amazing

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@alexbunardzic I don’t think it does. Its faster. But its harder.

Its easier to write tests with all the facts at hand, but it’s not better.

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@tottinge ~half a working day

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@EzProgramming @WoodyZuill @Atlassticdotcom @idanmelamed Still figuring that out. Been mostly unlucky and lucky so far, I think.

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@Atlassticdotcom @EzProgramming @WoodyZuill @idanmelamed Wasn’t talking about mob programming :)

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@EzProgramming @WoodyZuill @Atlassticdotcom @idanmelamed Worth the effort*

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@EzProgramming @WoodyZuill @Atlassticdotcom @idanmelamed Learning to collaborate well is a lot about building relationships, and maybe some luck in working well together as people just naturally. IME

It takes lots of time and effort to do that though. A shame to continously tare it down. It’s for the effort to grow a good team.

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@Atlassticdotcom @idanmelamed @WoodyZuill Sorr. The point was that we dont know what will have the desired impact. Pretending we do by making detailed plans and parallelizing work is not productive. At least in “a team”. You can split up and work independently on different goals etc. but there is a power in being many.

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@Atlassticdotcom @idanmelamed @WoodyZuill Then there is the problem of actually figuring out what to build. For this it’s better to have a team that can share 1 context and focus on less things at a time. Because context easily blows up otherwise, and time is eaten up doing busywork. Mob programming is great for focus.

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@Atlassticdotcom @idanmelamed @WoodyZuill Maybe you think you know exactly what your team should build? Then hire 5 people and write JIRA tickets with all the instructions and send them on their way. Then every day at standup they can report progress to you and how well they have understood your instructions. (sarcasm)

[Teresa Torres @ttorres]

“It’s critical that the team that is building the product is the same team that is engaging with customers directly.”

https://t.co/3nGVruuBMv

#prodmgmt #ux

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@rileypneville I want to play this like now!

[August Alexandersson @augustcoder]

@viktorcessan What are examples of feedback loops?