Chris Lasher

Software developer, ex-scientist, proud parent of a human and two Italian Greyhounds. He/him/his. Views are my own unless noted otherwise.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

If the most important quality to your team is "responding to change," I don't understand why you would ever choose Scrum. #darkscrum

For example, if Product can come in and blow up your whole Sprint commitments, you've probably picked the wrong tool for the job.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@hpdailyrant Does this mean you have separate ways of tracking work between design, engineering, product, and supporting areas of expertise? In other words, "separate boards for separate disciples"?

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@oneofmoo I would put No Man's Sky as a candidate, particularly with how the Anomaly hub works. Technically it is all multiplayer, but the chance of serendipitous interaction is low. The Anomaly and the Expeditions create central areas of shared activity.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

RIP, Jeff Beck. You're an inspiration to pushing boundaries and reinventing oneself.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@CGLambdin I still want to hear how it was legal for Musk to pull over 50 software engineers from Tesla to look at Twitter code, as Tesla employees.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@jessenoller You might have already considered this, but I'd recommend applying to graduate school instead of college, since — in the sciences — you get paid to go to school, through research assistantships, teaching assistantships, or a combination. Happy to talk with you more about this.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@hpdailyrant Congratulations! What an exciting new chapter!

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@jessenoller Would you be open to joining Honor? We have multiple engineering roles open.
https://t.co/b2XwRvHksI

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

Working on software systems where nobody who built it (incl. product, design, and data) is still with the organization, I have felt frustrated, and even defeated. My sympathy to the Twitter engineers who remain and those who will join.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

I am still looking for recommendations. 🙏🏼

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

I'm bivalently boosted!

Bivalent — now there's a word I haven't heard since OChem.

So… watch out, COVID! I'm about to attack your backside like an SN2 reaction!

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

Wow, @polyphia, you all are killing it! Hat tip to @stevevai for this collab!
https://t.co/239jO5U4wx

[swyx @swyx]

one of the biggest career asymmetries:

People who work from better first principles can beat people with *years* more experience, but who haven’t bothered to apply critical, original thinking to how they work.

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

What recordings of a person, a pair, or a mob/ensemble engaging in test-driven development would you recommend as helpful examples to an audience that has not yet experienced #TDD?

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

An under-appreciated aspect of software development is that it's possible to paint yourself into multiple corners at the same time! #10xdeveloper

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@sheldon_hull @garybernhardt As someone who needs to work in separate professional and personal systems, chezmoi has been a better experience than pure git for managing configurations (dotfiles).

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@CubicleApril @Twitter I wrote about this when Twitter was two years old. 😅
https://t.co/Ek3tTa4pyw

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

@CubicleApril @Twitter Agreed. Twitter Circles solves the problem of publishing content out to a select group of people (selecting the push). We still lack a way of subscribing to a subset of content from what's published by an account (selecting the pull).

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

To paraphrase @jonsmart, "The obstacles aren't IN the way. The obstacles ARE the way."

There's probably some relation to Theory of Constraints, there, too. #tocot

[Chris Lasher @gotgenes]

My best tip for improving in code and system design is, pay attention to the pain. Don't ignore it. Don't automate it away. Don't build around it. Lean into it. Understand it. Address it.