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Nerd shirt of the day #qwertee #portal #thiswasatriumph
Sometimes, #minimalist business cards are the best. #personalbrand
Daughters needed a third #princess , and who am I to say no?
I am psyched to see the #vegan offering in #luedinghausen growing week by week! #oatly
Nerd shirt of the day #qwertee
Here is a list of all non-ACME brands from the Looney
Tunes.
You know, just in case you'll ever need it.
Nice little drum-off between Nandi Bushell and Dave Grohl.
It started with Nandi covering Everlong by the Foo Fighters, to which Dave responded with a challenge to cover Dead End Friends by Them Crooked Vultures. Nandi executed this challenge beautifully, and then Grohl wrote a song just for her.
Nandi is a kick-ass role model, and my daughters adore her. Well done!
The future is now: Nokia to build mobile network on the
moon. So the
moon will get fast mobile internet before some spots in Germany? That is not
quite the future I imagined!
Here is a web quine- a website where the result looks the same as the source
code. This is quite
similar to an older example, which actually codes itself
live.
According to Gartner, overplanning is one of the 9 biggest digital business transformation mistakes:
Transforming to digital is more about doing than planning. Organizations can
get caught up in endless rounds of analysis paralysis, which slows the
transformation project. To combat this, organizations should institutionalize
lean startup thinking at every level.
I have moved the Product Owner Q&A to a separate space on this
page, where I will continue collecting questions and answers in
relation to Product Ownership.
#Misc
More vibes from the early 00s: This blog posts screenshots from old GeoCities
pages, one at a time.
Miss that warm fuzzy feeling of the early 2000s? Get it back by browsing this
museum of Winamp skins.
4 rules for intuitive
UX, specifically (also)
meant for developers. These rules are:
- Obey the Law of Locality
- ABD: Anything But Dropdowns
- Pass the Squint Test
- Teach by example
All these rules come with great and examples.
Should you re-estimate your work while you do it or
not?,
discussed in the context of agile estimation techniques. My stance is to never
re-estimate after work has been started, even if it's a huge outlier. Because we
tend to only re-estimate stuff where we have been too optimistic, and not items
where we have been too pessimistic - which would then skew the final result.
Also, even exceptional outliers are part of the usual business - they happen,
and if we take them out by re estimating them, we assume that they will not
happen in the future.
Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it
wrong?,
authored by StackOverflow, which in itself is reason enough to read it.
I think one of the reasons why Scrum (or agility in general) has such as bad
standing is because it tends to surface problems which are already there in the
company, and makes them transparent. Consequently, it's easier to shoot the
messenger than to acknowledge and work on the problems.
The longer something has taken, the longer it will
take. This
effect has a significant impact on any estimate on when an overdue project will
finally be done - intuition and hope says it will be done soon, the math and
experience says it won't.
Related to that is the Lindy
Effect: The longer
a technology has been around, the longer it is likely to stay around. This has
implications on, among other things, architecture.
If you don't pay attention to tech trends, you end up with unexpected
problems.
Specifically, it seems that UK Phone Number Assignments have been handled within
Yahoo! Groups - which has been shut down.
Food for side projects: A list of software and other offerings that have free
tiers for developers.. And if you want to learn new
stuff, look at this list of learning
goodies.
A few days back, someone on Twitter highlighted that viewing a single image on
Imgur causes downloading and running a megabyte of React
first. The
consensus in the thread was that the engineers at Imgur need to be morons in
order to let something like this happen.
My take on this is that it has grown organically. Imgur is not interested in
making the mobile experience (that's what this is about) great, they want you to
use the app instead. Coincidentally, the "Download the app" button is among the
first elements to be rendered. My best guess is that the current mobile page is
just something cobbled together on top of old software, with the business people
breathing down the developer's neck.
Malware for ATMs causes them to spit out all the money that they
have..
Looking at the details of this is scary:
- ATMs are apparently running on Windows
- They are not always running with the latest patches
- It seems to be possible to connect any USB device to it in some cases
- It also seems to be possible to run any program on these windows machines
To be honest, you had me at "Windows"!