Notices by archiloque (archiloque@felin.social)

« In my experience, projects almost always ship because one single person makes them ship. To be clear, that person doesn’t write all the code or do all the work, and I’m not saying the project could ship without an entire team behind it. But it’s really important that one person on the project has an end-to-end understanding of the whole thing: how it hangs together technically, and what product or business purpose it serves. »
https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/

Sometimes it feels that software projects are about checking how much you can ignore reality before things go wrong enough

For the first time in my career I’m on project with a UX lead that don’t have a prehensile tongue, I didn’t expect how much it would impact their practices

@alcinnz the part 2 of https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/ has lots of things

@inthehands I’m interested if you have other examples of this Paulism