Sigurd @fosseng

programmer by night 𓅦 Oslo Joined March 2009

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” —Edsger Dijkstra

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

Platform engineering reduces cognitive load for the teams? Only when everything works, the rest of the time it's added complexity.

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The rule to bind them all at [big corp]: Leaders shall never consider any ideas presented other than ideas presented by people at their level one level below their current position. Ideas presented by external consultants is the exception.

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

Platform Engineering does not replace DevOps, they said.

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

Warning about stupid practices and processes at [big corp]

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

My local apple store wanted €50 for _one_ of these keys, and they had to order the key from an international supplier. Ordered it my self. I might be a pirate now. 🏴‍☠️

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

Did agile die 10 of July 2016, and we are slowly realising? agilemanifesto.org/display/index.…

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Sigurd @fosseng

10 months ago

Trying the same thing over and over and asking AI for help when it doesn't work is quickly becoming the new normal. 😒

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Sigurd @fosseng

11 months ago

My package was a couple of kilometer away, but they decided it needed to take a long detour.

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Sigurd @fosseng

11 months ago

Thought leaders on changing their opinion: - It has always been my opinion.

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Sigurd @fosseng

11 months ago

Migrated from MySQL to PostgreSQL in a Java app with Hibernate. Do not let anyone tell you that you can easily migrate from one to another by choosing an ORM.

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Sigurd @fosseng

11 months ago

Them: We want to cooperate on a solution. ... (a work day later) ... Them: Here you go, this is the solution you must use. Me:

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Sigurd @fosseng

11 months ago

The totally unrelated thing has to be done in this app because it looks similar if you are not looking close enough. 🙈 - No, management knows best. - No, that's enough questions.