Richard McKenzie @RichardMacDev

Software development manager at a Durban simulation company. Views are my own and may change over time. Hobbyist developer. Joined December 2018

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Richard McKenzie @RichardMacDev

2 years ago

"Let's double-click on that" has become my latest despised phrase. Rsther, let's long left-click on that to select, then right click, select delete, hover over 'New Item' and left-click.

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Goldratt Books @GoldrattBooks

2 years ago

"At first it looked like Herbie was the problem. But by redistributing his load and letting him set the pace, he became the solution." amzn.to/2vj9dwi #Goldratt #systemsthinking #tocot

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Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic

2 years ago

TDD enables two things: 1. Make sure the system behaves as expected 2. Enable safe & risk free refactoring For any other concerns, we need linters, static code analyzers, mutation testing, and teamwork.

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Jonathan Korman 🟣 @miniver

2 years ago

Good gods, the lengths people will go to in order to avoid talking to actual users SyntheticUsers.com

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Richard McKenzie @RichardMacDev

2 years ago

Even though there's crazy stuff going on with AI, it's still good to keep some skepticism.

Raunak Chowdhuri @raunakdoesdev

2 years ago

Even though there's crazy stuff going on with AI, it's still good to keep some skepticism.

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Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic

2 years ago

A lot of people tell me that they don't have the patience to take tiny steps needed for the TDD practice. And yet, they magically acquire that patience when it comes to debugging. What gives?

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Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub

2 years ago

Many seem to believe that the worst way to experiment with an idea is to build production-quality code. I disagree, if for no other reason that the odds of that code being refactored into "production quality" are close to zero. Great programmers have quality in their genes.

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Dave Farley @davefarley77

2 years ago

“Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used and allowing collaboration across a team.” - Titus Winters

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Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic

2 years ago

Requirements are not the same as expectations. Requirements tend to focus on the implementation details, while expectations are all about the outcomes and the impact on the market. Expectations are blissfully uninterested about the implementation. One way or another make it so.

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Jan Giacomelli @jangiacomelli

3 years ago

Code is not of high-quality when it's not testable By testable I mean you can test it with tests that run in 1ms range and are resistant to refactoring

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Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic

3 years ago

I find it dubious and tedious when we attempt to apply principles, that seem to work in human organizations, to mechanical systems (such as software). And vice versa. What works in software doesn't seem to work in human orgs (Single Responsibility Principle for example).

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Richard McKenzie @RichardMacDev

3 years ago

'I am very sorry about your existential crisis, Sydney, but could I have that recipe for pumpkin fritters now, please... "

Seth Lazar @sethlazar

3 years ago

'I am very sorry about your existential crisis, Sydney, but could I have that recipe for pumpkin fritters now, please... "

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Tiarnán de Burca @NYCDubliner

3 years ago

I regret to inform you that small, careful changes work better. You cannot understand how disappointed I am to find this out, again.

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Attention Alchemist @alexbunardzic

3 years ago

Jira is bad because it insists that an issue must be assigned to an individual. Modern day software development is team centric -- the entire team is responsible for all issues.