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by cygned 4y ago
Try MJML, works wonders
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by cygned 4y ago
Concern was that it still turns down too many, maybe we were too careful. We have another vacant position soon, I might try it.
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by cygned 4y ago
We don’t post salary ranges right now. We are a small firm and cannot keep up with the salaries from enterprises in our area. We are looking for (and finding) candidates that are willing to sacrifice parts of their salary for 100% remote, f
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by cygned 5y ago
> what I am arguing is that SCRUM as most enforced things "micromanage and/or ignore human psychology". I think you are arguing Scrum can lead to these situations - which you cover in your other thoughts. And I agree, I ha
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by cygned 5y ago
Isn’t that why many teams opt to use Fibonacci sequence?
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by cygned 5y ago
Aren’t these interactions put in place to create transparency across the team regarding progress and purpose as well as empirical validation? I am not sure how that necessarily clashes with social structures inside the Scrum Team or micro
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by cygned 5y ago
> Every single tiny aspect of work is dictated by somebody else, commitee or some kind of process. That is not the way Scrum is meant to be implemented. The goal is to have a cross-functional, empowered team with the ability to make thei
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by cygned 5y ago
Whenever I come across teams with situations outlined as in this article and I talk to the people involved, it becomes apparent that Scrum was implemented for the sake of implementing Scrum without understanding. The values and the concept
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by cygned 5y ago
Despite him not saying "Scrum", the structure he's describing is not Scrum anyway. It might be close to what some people understand when they say "Scrum", but it is not Scrum.
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by cygned 5y ago
How does Scrum micromanage and/or ignore human psychology?
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by cygned 5y ago
Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind Charnas, D. https://www.workclean.com/
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by cygned 5y ago
The lower entry barrier for a lot of things. It allows the community to grow, learn and become more diverse. On the other hand, I regularly read blog articles about complex topics from people that should rather not write about it. I know &q
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by cygned 5y ago
Others will talk about the benefits, so let me give you a few gotchas from us: 1. It does not replace type checks at runtime (in integration layers) 2. Compilation and startup (in backend land) is slow 3. Some tooling seemingly caches (webp
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by cygned 5y ago
The thing is, though, that Typescript is not solving runtime type checks. Typescript is declarative, it does not check at runtime and if you have any code interacting with third-party data sources and you do not check there, things will exp
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by cygned 5y ago
https://teuxdeux.com/
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by cygned 5y ago
We built a system that creates backups of PII using that mechanism; throw away the key after data is supposed to be deleted. That is legal under EU GDPR.
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by cygned 5y ago
I use https://teuxdeux.com for weekly planning. Basically for any planning. That's the only todo list that works for me.
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by cygned 5y ago
Try Yoga. I started doing it every morning for 15-30 minutes, it makes a big difference. Another advise I can give you: your health is more important than your job. Take the time you need every day.
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by cygned 5y ago
> I'm not sure what "spreading" even refers to We have code like (stupid example) something.map( {a, b, ...rest} => ({ ...rest, ...a, ...[b, c, d]})) I know what it does and how it works, but I argue that'
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by cygned 5y ago
What I am referring to with factories in particular is that I can have a bean injected in Spring automagically using an annotation, have an interface and an implementation behind it. Now, I can go ahead and make the concrete implementation
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by cygned 5y ago
That DI layer (speaking for Spring) is pretty handy for large projects, though, because I can switch out implementations based on configurations centrally, I can use factories without change of injection patterns, ...
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by cygned 5y ago
I am leading a transition from TypeScript to Java + Spring Boot and comparing those side-by-side, Java is significantly easier to follow. In TypeScript, we have a (from my point of view) too complex type system and features like destructuri
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by cygned 5y ago
The aspects mentioned (Spring, DI containers, ...) are tool on top, though. If we just look at the language, I'd argue Java is boring - which is a good thing for certain types of applications. In languages like JavaScript, you have a n
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by cygned 5y ago
> It may lack a lot of the fancier features Coming from JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go back to Java I can tell you that’s actually a good thing.
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by cygned 5y ago
We would use them as data transfer objects between different layers of the system - however, they cannot extend another class and thus are not suitable in our specific case.
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by cygned 5y ago
> MSSQL T-SQL is just so a weirdly ugly language and the feature set of SQL Server is super weird. If we can, we go with Postgres or MySQL.
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by cygned 5y ago
I find Java code way more maintainable than JavaScript or TypeScript, to be honest. Especially since Java 11, the language has evolved significantly.
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by cygned 5y ago
I try to find an agile project management tool that works for us. We run on what many would call Scrum (it’s not actually Scrum). We are on JIRA now, and it’s … JIRA. We tried basically any other tool, including Excel (yes, that is somewhat
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by cygned 5y ago
Let me introduce you to Microsoft Teams which comes with custom notifications ignoring do-not-disturb settings.
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by cygned 5y ago
I do mise-en-place (preparation) and use TeuxDeux as my todo list. It’s so super simple but such an effective tool, so limiting it’s not getting in my way. I tried everything else, every tool, every technique - nothing works for me. I can’t

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