Matthias Laug

Conway‘s law is around since 1967. So why isn’t org structure design still not a thing in computer science? The way we organise people (specifically in large orgs) has so much impact on our software.

Automatically silencing calls that are not in my contacts is what I needed most for my phone to be less distracting. It also incentivized the habit to proactively put in numbers that I want to be able to reach me.

#LinkedIn became completely useless for me. 100 of contact requests a day that are cold calls for products and services I am not even remotely interested in. Overstated posts of business success and a lot of clear bullshit. Just closed my account … another app of my screen time

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That being said … I did those things to many times. In my first year and my latest year. It was always to easy :)

This is all fun and well handled, kudos for that. Yet linking juniority to such a mistake puzzles me. Here is another take: your integration system allowed sending out real mails and had access to real data. Maybe fix the system, don’t blame juniority

@finnlorbeer @janboehm Ich verwende jetzt seit fast 16 Jahren „Kanzlerin“. Denke das sollten wir unabhängig vom Ausgang der Wahl fortsetzen. Die anderen sind damit natürlich auch gemeint

@gigasquid It is my way to assess seniority within days when it comes to execution :) knowing what not to do also creates the impression of speed associated with seniors. They just do less most of the times

Wow! Coming on 25 years of software development. I can honestly say that the most valuable skill that I've developed over all those years isn't technical coding, but being able to figure out what is important and what's not.

@ockenrock Of course their decision and nothing is illegal about the setup. But it you want to value diversity you have to also provide the environment to discuss different opinions no matter if the discussons can be concluded or not

@MatthiasLaug I think it’s possible. But just because you can, it doesn’t mean you have to:„to each their own“; it’s their company, they own & run it.They also have to deal with the consequences of their decisions (which they do).Coinbase is a different beast; it has way more stakeholders...

Less than 4 hours left to vote, it’s a small “n” and obviously very biased by my own Twitter bubble, but it’s still interesting to see that opinions seem to be so “split” (almost 50/50) & there is no clear majority for any position.

@ockenrock From my perspective it is something I wished to see happen when Coinbase did the same last year. Kind of upset around the „purpose focused company“ bullshit. As if you can’t do both

@MatthiasLaug I know & I’ve been following them for a long time already. Still interesting that many other people seem to watch & pay attention to what they do... just an interesting observation. There are many other much larger & impactful companies that get way less attention in comparison.

@ockenrock Their founders are quite known in the tech field and hold strong opinions. It’s more about them but their company

FWIW it’s also interesting to see how a company with significantly less than 100 employees can create so much noise...

@realkniels @anothercohen Imagine being a gay couple which is without saying a political statement for still too many people and you can’t discuss this at work where you supposed to feel save. The only people that don’t need to talk politics are white straight men. This is the group you retain

@anothercohen Imagine quitting because you can’t talk politics at work.

Imagine writing a tweet that makes 1/3rd of your company quit

Question is, who hasn’t. Seeing a company implode in real time. Kudos to all having the courage for this step, it is never easy.

This 8yr old understood the bias of AI better than most data scientist building models in this field

#basecamp a company I admired in their way of working - until now. And after I read this blog post from @dhh I stumbled across the section of the severance package. Isn‘t this just a lay off strategy hidden under the facade of being thought leaders? world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all…

@ejmudi Senior on the frontend. Good API design can be consumer driven and will influence a good backend design which helps a junior to design a good backend.

Assume you had to hire 2 web developers,.. ..one frontend developer and one backend developer role. One has to be a Junior and the other a Senior developer. Which of these 2 roles would you hire as a Junior and which as a Senior and why?

Yeah, I am. Pandemic out there …

@kvlly Why is this even a business model …

I am so excited to announce that I have been recognized as the recipient of an award. I just need to pay $1,000 to accept it. What. An. Honor.

@tastapod @IrisClasson I love to say “money making code” because it might not be the most fanciest code but it is the one running the business :)

I’ve started referring to legacy code as vintage code and it feels so much better.

@evansims @auth0 I guess rotating underwear is the equivalent to just adding another 1 at the end. But actually it is still the same, just inside out :)

Passwords are like underwear. They shouldn't stick to the wall. Or anything else.