hilton.org.uk
Product manager in 🇳🇱 Rotterdam, working at 🇳🇴 https://pafyll.com • speaker, writer, and musician • blogs software product management/design/development at https://hilton.org.uk/blog/
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A small kindness
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This was the community Tuesday, but it will also be at the conference today.
A version of this.
youtu.be/9qUfX3XFi_4?...
And yes. It is pretty awesome.
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… which I finally wrote about after a recent conversation with @dylanbeatt.ie, and in which I namedrop @kevlin.bsky.social, @chrisoldwood.bsky.social and @maritvandijk.bsky.social
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Usually, one of you has a connecting flight, and is looking at the wrong boarding pass
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But tragically, it’s at the same time as my talk 😭😭😭
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ndcoslo.com/agenda/the-f...
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Perhaps banter makes for better small talk than Q&A does 🤷🏻♂️
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I’m British, so I only have favourite colours 😬
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omg yes 😍 thank you 🙏🏻😭😭
Now I can update hilton.org.uk/blog/domain-... 😅
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E-prime becomes less awkward with practice, though. I write all of my blog posts in E-prime, for example. It turns out that English has plenty of other verbs!
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‘When we say that the tomato is feedback, we exploit the flexibility of the verb “to be”’ - which demonstrates the slightly awkward usefulness of E-prime 😅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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I fear that ‘techify’ and ‘technify’ will end up with two subtly different but non-interchangeable meanings, prompting widespread confusion and arguments.
Either way, this is an example of the general English-language rule that ‘we can verb any noun’, and if that annoys people, too bad 😬
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This week, Einar used ‘technification’ on a slide, and since English doesn’t have a language academy or official word list, that’s a word now too.
However, I haven’t yet figured out whether the verb is ‘techify’ or ‘technify’ 💭
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👍🏻 Euro English regularly improves on other English regional dialects
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A classic from 25 years ago! www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/t...
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Indeed, but I guess that’s more about swearing when you attempt to ‘read’ the code, rather than when you *write* it 😬
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Yes, and since the ‘why’ is important additional context, what if there were a way to add it using special hints in the code? hilton.org.uk/blog/3-kinds...
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I wrote more about this in a blog post: hilton.org.uk/blog/informa...
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If you build business software that's a system of record, or some kind of business information system, and you don't have a stable, recognisable and readable URL *for each record*, and unique HTML ‘title’ element text, then you are a Bad Software Architect, and should reconsider your life choices.
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I find this ironic, because integration between apps and platforms is hugely important in business software, while hyperlinks are the simplest kind of integration between web apps.
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Among public Internet web sites, there are various #openWeb movements, initiatives, and organisations such as Bluesky that think that hyperlinks are Good Actually. But business software is a whole different world of single page apps that systematically break basic browser functionality.
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How might pointing and calling translate to software development? 🤔
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Oh, it’s worse than that: they finished the sentence ‘eller..?’ (‘or’ in Norwegian), with two dots instead of a single ellipsis character (…) 🤮 #typographyHorror
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Similarly, I thought finishing a sentence with ‘…, or?’ was mostly a German thing that occasionally pops up in English. And then this week I read ‘…, eller?’ in an email for the first time 😔