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New baby kiwi “Manawa” born in Rotorua. Too cute.

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Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv.bsky.social) is the brains behind DORA, lead author SPACE, and the co-author of Accelerate. Hardly a better person to share how to think about, measure and improve developer productivity! Stream the full episode: • YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wufj... (cont'd)

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Scaling Product and culture… a chat with Maksym Kunytsia blog.logrocket.com/product-mana...

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Increasingly, Customer Experience (CX) will be a function of Developer Experience (DX), which will be a function of Agent Experience (AX).

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Damn it, Lumon design and iconography is so good, it’s so confusing. Good reminder though: good design is NOT exclusive to good organisations.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Reference to the Agile Manifesto or the people present as some sort of appeal to authority is a sign of weakness. The most useful concepts in technology and product development have no trouble standing on their own two feet worth of evidence. The thought process of their originators isn't relevant.

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In which New Zealand is so far away and safe that it’s somehow considered the escape plan for when everything turns to shit.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

As sad as I am that Wordpress is going through this craziness… if it means we diversify the CMS space with 2-3 bigger players, that would probably be A Good Thing™️

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Been trying to figure out where the new Sonos App moved the “Alarms” to for weeks. Finally figure it out. (Not at all intuitive.)

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The future is already here, Home Battery Edition. #AMA

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The best thing about tech is that it’s constantly evolving, improving, pushing forward. The worst thing about tech is the organisations who are stuck in a 20-years-ago time warp.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

WIMPs are fading and PBHs are in the ascendancy in the hunt for an explanation for all the missing mass in the Universe. www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

My rule of thumb for CapEx of software development is quite simple: If you can’t show me the code in a repo that we control, there is NO asset being created. www.reseller.co.nz/article/1294...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, yay. Another SAP car crash. When will we learn? www.reseller.co.nz/article/1298...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Always interesting to see the Jobs to be Done that a new product focuses on. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDWWS12...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

“It’s hard to measure almost, because almost doesn’t matter”

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The great thing about maps, if you don’t like the path you’re on, you can always choose another.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Sulking.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments