Thanos Kolovos

Living between Back and Front End. Coding & Design Principles maniac. Need to know how it works before using anything.

[dax @thdxr]

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code

here's what things actually look like

- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping

- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life

- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend

- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon

- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real

- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

The Bait, the Switch & the Loop - A dark pattern in #interviews

https://t.co/m5Pd3gifwG

[Erin Kelly Has Had Enough of X - see you elsewhere @mserinkelly]

Are you a young person who enjoys stuffing your face with junk food? Fucking go for it. After 45 everything you love to eat will turn on you. I once did Glastonbury on nothing but haribo and pot noodles and was fine. Yday after one donut I needed elastic trousers and a lie down

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

https://t.co/7FcbJ80hHs

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

https://t.co/9qNuwuF8av

#mentalhealth

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

An idea based on Chaos Engineering principles but doesn't have to do with DevOps or is limited to Engineering.

Could we apply Chaos Engineering principles to teams and get more insights?

#leadership

https://t.co/S357M9foSN

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

Good leaders nurture an environment and create opportunities for everyone to grow.

Seizing these opportunities and putting in the work is up to you.

#growth #leadership

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

How many organizational problems could have been avoided if communication wasn't rushed and assumption-based?

[William (Bill) Kennedy @goinggodotnet]

I've never kept it a secret that I'm not a fan of TDD. I believe in prototype driven development (PDD) with a focus on data driven design (DDD)

I believe the general engineering cycle should be prototype, solidify, refactor, test, minimize, reduce, and simplify in that order.

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

To speak up or not to speak up?
There is no question. Always speak up.

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

I never understood those scenes where the hero gets home and pours some whiskey or opens a beer 30'' after they close the door behind them, *but* I'd love a beer right now. 🤷‍♂️

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

https://t.co/bHPB9RiOmR

#leadership #management

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

Director's Cliche:
If a front seat window of a moving car takes a lot of space in a shot, there is probably a crash happening in the next few seconds.

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

A lot of managers, especially those from an engineering background, think that management is about doing stuff: defining rules, policies, and procedures; assigning tasks; creating external incentives; fixing problems.

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

360 or performance reviews should summarise the work you’ve been doing in your 1:1s since the last review.

If not, you need to work on that relationship and have more honest, constructive discussions.

And this is your action item.

#leadership #360reviews

[Ahmad Shadeed @shadeed9]

Container queries are finally here. This is a big day for CSS 🎉

To celebrate that, I'm starting a new lab to try all things container queries at https://t.co/QJcwq2r9iU. This is inspired by @jensimmons's amazing CSS grid lab.

Article: https://t.co/fGMrHqqGpy

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

@rands Don't wait for the "right time" to say something (good or bad). Continuance is not guaranteed.

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

#DisneyPlus web interface #ux is by far my least favourite. Memory leaks, tab crashes, scrolling lag.

I'm curious about how efficient it works on smart TVs 🤔

[Thanos Kolovos @codegaze]

To future or new leaders out there:

When there is no drama, and things are boring, there are no fireworks, but you are doing something right.

[Fireship @fireship_dev]

This is what my "side projects" directory looks like... Is this normal?