Job spec fallacies and red flags. I will start:

* "Fast-paced environment" = "You will rarely finish something before start something else"
* "Ability to juggle competing priorities" = "our leaders don't align holistically and everything is important"
* "Opportunity to interact with all departments" = "You will accumulate functions"
* "Industry pioneers" = "We didn't research our competition when we started"
* "Leaders in the segment" = "We still haven't researched our competition"
* "Matrixed teams" = "we don't know how to structure our organisation"

The requestor have responsibility for the conditions under which their request will be fulfilled. There is no "do your magic". The magic is always "ours" to some extent.

Details, directions, focus, clear goal, you name it, there is a shit ton of ways the requestor participates in the success.

Do you think AI will screw devs' employment somehow?

Making software is science. I'm not talking about overengineering, just doing things right (with a minimum of automated testing, abstraction, architecture easy to modify, stuff like that). If you don't wan't to invest money in science, but only in business, get external providers for parts of your product, if not all of it. Stop making custom stuff that already exists, unless you can make something better (because it most probably ain't be cheaper, regardless the quality level).

Rant...

Can't remember

Best mentor: https://devrant.com/rants/5266128/...

My bad dev habit: <?php

<py-script> ... Good luck minifying that

A dev team got to large and have to split in 2. How do you approach/organise this?

Is "Debug" the D in BDSM?

"Hours of debug can save you minutes of reading documentation"

Just happened to me

Scrum Master: Let's estimate the task. Chose your estimations individually, then we will reveal at the same time and discuss
- variety of votes, ranging from 1 to 8
Product Owner: I don't agree, this should be a 1 or 2.
Dev Team Lead: Agreed, this is why I chose 2. Let's vote again.
- All votes now are 1s or 2s

Good fucking job 🤨

Once upon a time

My first experience with a computer was playing Alley Cat. Anyone else familiar with this gem?

Have any real life story of great leadership in tech?

📚What book would you recommend to software developers and why? 1 book per reply so people can ++ them.

Returning to tech after 3 years working with agile, training and coaching Scrum, Kaban and XP practices. Applying for team leadership positions. Advice?

sudo chmod -R 777

Time for a digital profile detox?
https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/...

What makes you wake up every day to go work?

Most satisfying bug solved: removed windows, installed linux

How was your day at work?
Dev: - I managed to break the whole thing, so s**t! 😭
QA: - I managed to break the whole thing, so productive! 😎

Architects (of real buildings) can work in IT as game level designers.

"42", the answer to life, the universe and everything, is the decimal representation for "*" in the ascii table. Got it? How cool is that?

Moving to a new job 5 months after starting the previous one. The company did not manage to pass my probation period.

First contact with computers: draw a square using LOGO language. No idea which was the computer back then.

Learn modern Javascript, Python, data science, machine learning, to catch up and not be outdated

Phrases that you use at work that could also be used at a Christmas Party?

Playing Warcraft and similar games prepared me for understanding Classes and Instances in Object Orientation later.