Jacques de Vos

They say our industry changes fast, but in my career so far I only noticed one big paradigm change in software design: rationalist to empiricist. E.g. what is valued changed from: abstract models to feedback from running software, architected to grown, analysis to experimentation

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The last few months I have been focussing on an exciting startup journey .. to help improve mental health of children. Here is a bit of our Augmental story: link.medium.com/dG9gu9q3Ghb #adhd #mentalhealth #digitalhealth #startups

@KentBeck Our experience: async work without at least a few daily sync work opportunities doesn’t work very well for us, especially for more junior team members

@KentBeck My observation: with the big shift to remote work, few prominent remote first pioneers value and promote “async” work driven by documentation, 2 being Basecamp (book Remote) and GitLab (Playbook) and their publications are influential. XP-style collab doesn’t feature, weirdly

Why is the pendulum swinging towards comprehensive documentation? Documentation is good for 1) stable information 2) with a large audience.

Installed Twitter after a 6-month break... the mood seems a bit better

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@OryxGazella DM me. Or just call you’ve had my number for 30 years

SA Tech twitter: Which companies work with: Groovy, Erlang, Elixir, Haskell or Clojure as a primary language. I feel like working for the man again in 2021?

@paulg @vedax “These highest-performing firms were identified based on employment growth. The age finding is similar using firms with the fastest sales growth instead, and founder age is similarly high for those startups that successfully exit through an IPO or acquisition. “. Laughable?

@vedax Look at how they qualify companies as startups. It's laughable.

At what age, when you choose to defer starting a startup because you need to get more experience, does the probability that you're lying to yourself cross 50%? Jessica thought 26. I thought 24. But somewhere in the mid 20s probably.

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@paulg The sage. Pay special attention to arguments that start with billiard balls🤯

"Commerce... is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable." — Hume (I.e. the reason autocracies are poor is that it's more prestigious to be one of the dictator's minions than to build things.)

@vanDykPJ Any guess what it is? AI heavy glasses or voice interface?

Exciting! HU.MA.NE The best human experience, ever.

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@gbelrose 🤔32

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@coreytufts @philosophybites There isn’t even a constant conjunction

@philosophybites I dint see the necessary connection.

Hume + Darwin = atheism

@GarethStep @joshilewis @stephan_swart @riaan_dp I meant just see if you can rope in someone already part of the company, without hiring, even if they don’t have titles like architect (in my experience there usually is someone like like this that knows the systems inside out)... but silly to generalise like this I guess

@jacdevos @joshilewis @stephan_swart @riaan_dp How do you hire someone who already knows the existing business and systems?

A new Enterprise Architect position for a decoupling project with < 8 engineers who don't have decoupling experience. Pro's? Con's? Pitfalls?