Toots from 2025-04-10
ICYMI… https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/114309297431133353
ICYMI…
https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/114309297431133353
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“Telemetry data showed no measurable productivity gains: There were no statistically significant …
“Telemetry data showed no measurable productivity gains: There were no statistically significant differences in lines of code, PRs, or time spent coding between the treatment and control groups.”
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“Welcome to being a manager! Your time-management problem just got a lot harder.” <https://www…
“Welcome to being a manager! Your time-management problem just got a lot harder.”
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Adopting meta-engineering practices is one of the most effective ways to improve both individual …
Adopting meta-engineering practices is one of the most effective ways to improve both individual productivity and group outcomes. This is a fantastic list of suggestions to start from. It’s targeted at C and most of the lessons are language-independent:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writing-c-for-curl/
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Reminds me of the qmail writeup:
“For many years I have been systematically identifying error-prone programming habits—by reviewing the literature, analyzing other people’s mistakes, and analyzing my own mistakes—and redesigning my programming environment to eliminate those habits. "
https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
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“And yet, the two fields both have something in common: they both recognize the value of creati…
“And yet, the two fields both have something in common: they both recognize the value of creating explicit models of aspects of systems that are not typically modeled.”