Vish Persaud

IT Architect, software developer.
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[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

If you have a lot of hubris with no curiosity, you might not understand:
- how to build upon lessons learned from the old system
- the opportunity cost of trying something new
- the complexity of a massive rewrite, or why the system became complex for the current features

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

If we must deliver, then we must NOT have individual assignments on the critical path to delivery.

I sometimes wonder if we should "chaos monkey" our teams - send one member on a short vacation or side project so the team learns to be robust.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

- - Charles Bukowski

[vicki @vboykis]

New blog post: I have been pretty unhappy with the state of modern development and wanted to understand why. We are building on millions of dependencies we don’t understand, in fragmented and proprietary cloud environments we can’t introspect.

https://t.co/tosBNom9Bu

[Eb @eikonne]

I’m persuaded that if Mary Parker Follett was a man, more people would talk about her and her work.

So this week, I’m going to try and share some her thoughts that have had a profound impact on me.

Stay tuned.

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

You know why us Senior+ engineers have good hygiene around structuring and naming conventions?

It’s because we’ve been bitten by our mistakes enough times to have respect for what we can do wrong when we’re careless.

[Stefan Tilkov @stilkov]

Boring take: It’s extremely convenient to treat software architecture/technology decisions as if there were simple truths. But there’s really nothing that’s a good solution everywhere, and there are very, very few approaches that are almost always bad. 1/2

[Alan Cooper @MrAlanCooper]

"Only profit" is basically a neoliberal concept, popularized by Milton Friedman, among others. It is beloved by business people because it absolves them of responsibility to their communities. 2

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

The best thing about being on Mastodon is participating in the great collective project of helping the world's pettiest man lose 44 bajillion dollars.

[Jessica Kerr @jessitron]

“The Controllers belong in the ‘controllers’ directory.
The Views belong in the ‘views’ directory.”

Oh, do you name all your variables “integer” or “string”?

Use the directory structure to communicate some relations between parts in the program!

[Alan Cooper @MrAlanCooper]

There are certainly related problems, like the lack of antitrust enforcement, the lack of white collar crime enforcement, and the lack of tax law enforcement on rich people, etc, etc. But inequality is foundational to tech's failures. 32

[Alan Cooper @MrAlanCooper]

Pretty much all companies employ or hire people whose jobs are to create a good "user experience."

But pretty much all companies are not actually in the business of creating good "user experiences." 24

[Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood]

Sorry, but nothing has changed since James Coglan posted this 9 years ago:

Why GitHub is not your CV

https://t.co/DpQoReuRbL

[Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll]

Honorable thing to do! Also an argument (as usual) for some kind of ranking system rather than simplistic plurality voting.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on https://t.co/iSBh8srvly, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://t.co/NbUEOxLrpS 2/

[@daniloc.xyz on bsky @_danilo]

I spend a lot of time explaining the same thing over and over again

"It's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. You're completely capable of making sense of this machine. It's just that some asshole got a bonus for trying to confuse you so a little graph would go up."

[@daniloc.xyz on bsky @_danilo]

And it just makes me so angry

This technology is non-negotiable, at this point, even for seniors. They need it to keep in touch with people, to participate in cultural and civic life

And these companies are just CONTAMINATING the every day experience with surveillance crapware

[Dash Dobrofsky @DashDobrofsky]

US News stations were once a public service that sought to inform society and report unbiased facts. Today, Corporate news has morphed into a lucrative industry that seeks high ratings and ad-revenue. The days of Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Walter Cronkite are a distant memory.

[TwistedDoodles @twisteddoodles]

Balanced news reporting