Yeray Darias

@ydarias.bsky.social

Software developer ... sometimes I'm like The Wolf, I solve problems (and I bake cookies) 🙂

We see that AI tools amplify good engineering cultures, and bad. So it is rational to better the engineering culture at any and all organizations. Good (engineering) middle management is pretty good at doing this. So why are so many companies gutting middle management, and now?

Nunca son suficientes las veces que se comparta este vídeo. Porque aún queda mucho camino y atravesamos años convulsos. Feliz mes del Orgullo. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Team Topologies excerpt "Trying to fix engineering issues by mandating them from above is doomed to failure, as you really need buy-in from the folks working at he coalface"

"Management is not a promotion, management is a change of profession. And you will be bad at it for a long time after you start doing it. If you don’t think you’re bad at it, you aren’t doing your job." charity.wtf/2017/05/11/t...

The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thin…

charity.wtf

If you're wondering why January often brings the largest outages - here's a common reason The code freeze is THE time to do all the big refactors that seemed too risky to do the rest of the year. Guess when it ships... all at once 🥶

The Pragmatic Engineer.@pragmaticengineer.com · 8mo ago

It's that time of the year... code freezes / deployment freezes will start at lots of companies. A deepdive on approaches at Big Tech; the upsides; downsides; and companies that don't do this at all: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/code-freezes

Take-aways: - Positions of power require more care with the humor we practice, though respect should always come first. - Humor tends to be more prevalent in the ages when we take life less seriously. - Message sign-offs have great potential 😈