Chris Breish

he/him

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@davidianlandis @brandontroberts Like "What were we thinking when we wrote this? 🤦‍♀️"

[Kath Korevec @simpsoka]

Great marketing

[🎻 ➡️ BlueSky @ericlaw]

it's all bugs, all the way down

[Adam Chalmers @adam_chal]

I wish all documentation about tech (libraries, HTTP docs etc) started with "what problem is this solving"

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

Is there a non-degraded version out there somewhere I don't know about?

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Sony worries that Microsoft might undermine PlayStation "simply by not making it as good as it could be" by making Call of Duty games for the platform perform worse or by raising the price of its games for the console.
https://t.co/xVDvu0UqxH

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@housecor I think the guideline being broken here is "Things that change together, live together.". If a single logical change requires you to touch more than one repo, that's a smell indicating that those two things are actually one thing.

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

Refactoring, by definition, provides no new user value. It is not a story (which describes your user's work, not yours). Refactoring is not a task either. It's just something that you do continuously as you work—part of the development process.

So, no. Never.

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@KarlGerm My strategy is to listen to audio books while I'm doing something relatively mindless eg driving, mowing the lawn, etc. I can crush books this way.

[David Wondrich @DavidWondrich]

What's with all these "cocktails for the Big Game" flooding my inbox? I mean, sure, moose and elk would be much easier to shoot if you got 'em liquored up first, but I just don't think it's a practical strategy, or really very sporting.

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@KarlGerm I'm looking forward to your Fortress speedrun streams.

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@How2Drink I feel like this would be better as a software solution. Maybe a virtual monitor that shows up as an overlay over another monitor.

[Dave Anderson @scarletinked]

Moving from software engineer to senior software engineer is a big step.

Most engineers get hung up on assuming that their technical depth is the key to growing their position. But is that really what's holding them back?

🧵

[Christian Hujer 🇪🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇦🇬🇱☼𓃬 @christianhujer]

"Hotfix" is just a euphemism for "our regular process is so slow that we can't use it in a situation where we would actually need it most urgently."

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@davidianlandis @tomfromtheweb Ham is just leftover pork you pay extra for.

[Ryan Bates @rbates]

Clever code requires a high skill level to write, an equally high skill level to read, and an even higher skill level to debug. Embrace dumb code.

[Kevin Hu @kevinzenghu]

Isn’t every web application an abstraction on top of SQL at some level?

[Chris Breish @cbreish]

@damienguard At my company we colloquially call them Player/Coaches. It's not a title but a description we use.

[Laura Tacho 🌮 @rhein_wein]

I interview a lot of people, from C-suite to interns.

Want to nail your next interview and get a high offer?

Avoid these 5 mistakes.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When you're interviewing for a new role, you might find that the company/team is messy or disorganized. Should you take the role?

Here's what I observed: if everything works well-oiled, there's little to fix. At a messy place, fixing things can be hard: also hugely impactful.