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[Painless Software @getpainless]

Scrum team members all work towards one goal, to master the sprint (and the next one). A true agile team has no members that want to boss others around, there is no hierarchy by nature. That's a performing team. #agile #team #scrum #people #developers https://t.co/n9SGcB5No6

[Painless Software @getpainless]

The problem of CoCs is not the wishful thinking. It's that democratic tools require separation of powers.

Moderators must not write the rules. Moderators must not judge behavior. They must ban when asked to do so, period. No open source project does that.

#coc #democracy #power

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source.

After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in public that "Codes of Conduct" have been a disaster - a kind of infectious social insanity producing lots of drama and politics and backbiting, and negative useful work.

Here is my advice about codes of conduct:

1. Refuse to have one. If your project has one, delete it. The only actual function they have is as a tool in the hands of shit-stirrers.

2. If you're stuck with having one for bureaucratic reasons, replace it with the following sentence or some close equivalent: "If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you'll be ejected."

3. Attempts to be more specific and elaborate don't work. They only provide control surfaces for shit-stirrers to manipulate.

Yes, we should try to be kind to each other. But we should be ruthless and merciless towards people who try to turn "Be kind!" into a weapon. Indulging them never ends well.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Never ask permission to refactor. Never ask permission to write tests. You do these things because you KNOW they are the best way to go fast.

When you ask permission, you are asking someone else to take responsibility for your actions.

[Painless Software @getpainless]

If your test code is more complex than your business code then you're creating a problem instead of solving one. Keep it simple, stupid! #kiss #testing #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #complexity #problem https://t.co/nE1KFyR62e @PythonBiella

[Painless Software @getpainless]

Use the HTML5 `dialog` tag and get rid of some of your legacy #JavaScript code! Cleaner code thanks to Web standards.

https://t.co/YlsCWBEnKe #html5 #web #standards #clean #code

[Painless Software @getpainless]

@peterbittner @googlechrome @gitlab @Google This wonderful talk about Web standards explains the role of Safari in this tragedy. https://t.co/Sir5aLQ99U

#british #humour #lovely #web #standards #safari #chrome #internetexplorer #netscape #mozilla

[Painless Software @getpainless]

Two inspirational videos explaining (the motivation for) HTMX.
- REST and HATEOAS: https://t.co/40wYYga20b
- HTMX vs React: https://t.co/LBlhBEb75X

[Painless Software @getpainless]

If a team doesn't take time to take control of maintenance load #maintenance #load will take control of the team. "The longer we put off maintenance work, the less smooth and effortless feature development will be." https://t.co/QoR9Iz8UoO #softwaredevelopment

[Painless Software @getpainless]

Maintenance load is how you measure tech debt in your system or application. @HeyChelseaTroy on how to understand and fight technical debt. #softwaredevelopment #maintenance #techdebt
https://t.co/dkVWXZAO3I

[Painless Software @getpainless]

Take your time to re-architecture your software from time to time. Empower your engineers to suggest possibilities to streamline the implementation. #softwaredevelopment #fighting #techdebt

[Painless Software @getpainless]

The Four Golden Signals. How to get the best out of your monitoring efforts. Focus on latency, traffic, errors, saturation. #application #infrastructure #monitoring #sre #automation #dashboards https://t.co/eI8xQ3DGQw

[Peter Bittner 🇺🇦 @peterbittner]

A shame for the entire industry. LOL https://t.co/ED5YCxvK5T #container #security #docker #GitLab

[Painless Software @getpainless]

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” (Alvin Toffler) https://t.co/XNEg5jHO68 #kubernetes #learning #continuous #improvement

[Painless Software @getpainless]

Do you know https://t.co/JCwfCpHUBH? Might be a good first stop if you're unsure on which technology to focus next, or which technologies to look for when hiring. #hiring #tech #stack #learning #developer #technologies #jobsearch

[Peter Bittner 🇺🇦 @peterbittner]

cli-test-helpers v3.0.0 released! 🤖🐍 Start mocking `os.environ` and command line arguments reliably in your tests now. https://t.co/Y4BRhS9y1G #python #testing #cli #unittest

[Peter Bittner 🇺🇦 @peterbittner]

If you're a Pythonista and you think that cyber security is the next big thing, but you're too anxious to start learning, then start here. That's entertaining and yet scary. https://t.co/18cPiCbzFq #python #fun #vulnerability #security #programming

[Peter Bittner 🇺🇦 @peterbittner]

I love how we have crafted object APIs over time in #Python. This is how `datetime.timedelta` can be used with `time.sleep`: 😍😍😍
`sleep(polling_delay.seconds)` 🐍
Isn't this #beautiful? It makes the sun shine over here. ☀️ #readable
(Originally from: https://t.co/DRvtgwpTZP)

[Painless Software @getpainless]

Can't wait to see @gitlab's vision of their Code Quality Dashoard come true. 😍🚀 #developer #motivation #dashboard https://t.co/MxOZBK8sms