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bethcodes.bsky.social
Sr Staff Engineer supporting agile cultures that let developers build software well & help them learn how to. Mediating a new scientific revolution associated with the night dream of post-industrial society ze/hir/hirs
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Anyone else notice that Google Docs’ grammar checker suddenly start being terrible at grammar?

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We desperately need people in Washington who understand tech without representing the interests of giant billionaire-owned corporations that want to crush their competition.

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The key characteristic of Agile development is delegated management. Any framework that offers full supervision to upper management is not Actually Agile. (definitions from Robert Austin: www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.h...)

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Our movements are advertisements for the world we would build if we get power.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Government software can be good and we know how.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“If you have one road, you don’t need a map” - @kevlin.bsky.social at #myConf

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A company that demands engineers do their job badly unless given permission to do it well is going to end up with the software it deserves.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky is for people who remember disenvoweling

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When a “stand up” involves people working on different goals/projects reporting their status, that is just a status meeting.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Any change is an excuse to change

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Whelp, this is horrifying.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Ow theonion.com/ow/

submitted 19 days ago • 72 comments

“the authority to care for each other”

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I will say, I know a *lot* of devs who made good choices like this to take care of their users, quietly doing the right thing. I wish more people knew how often some programmer made a thoughtful decision to protect their interests that they never knew about.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

We were warned that advertising our local Pride Parade at my small-town Earth Day festival could make people who “throw punches” uncomfortable. We showed up anyway and it went great! Not even one negative comment. Anyone who didn’t want to engage just walked on by.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments