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Jason Gorman@jasongorman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Teams organised around technology stacks and technical disciplines have about as much chance of achieving a business goal as a sack full of ferrets has of changing a lightbulb. Smart companies organise around business outcomes. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...

“Productivity”. You Keep Using That Word.

Bill writes a book with about 80,000 words. It takes him 500 hours.Priti writes a book with about 60,000 words. It takes her 2,000 hours.Which author is most productive?It’s a nonsensical que…

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@ericminick.bsky.social · last yr.

Small code changes are safe code changes. If AI means you can code 5x faster, you should commit 5x more. Too many folks are committing at the same frequency and having bigger PRs. DORA is finding a partial decrease in stability and throughput as a result of this. The 'continuous' in CI is serious

@ericminick.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to this one. At the end of the day, CI tools just aren't CD tools. Several toolmakers have started in prod and worked reasonably successfully back toward CI. Nobody starts in build and ends up with a good, secure CD. webinars.techstronglearning.com/why-are-you-...

Why are you still using legacy CI tools?

Discover how the Harness platform goes beyond traditional approaches, offering AI-driven automation, faster builds, and integrated security with Software Testing Orchestration (STO). We’ll showcase a ...

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@ericminick.bsky.social · last yr.

In physics, velocity is a vector. It is speed in a direction. For a software team, it should be the same. It matters that you get a lot done AND that you get the RIGHT things done. Most teams try to measure their output. It’s harder to measure if they’re going in the right direction.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last yr.

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

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@ericminick.bsky.social · last yr.

Man... GitHub Actions is the new Jenkins. Lots of folks trying it for a few years, then realizing that they are in scripting in hell, plugin hell and everything is slow and then moving on. Hey... Jenkins was been amazingly successfully successful... so congratulations?

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 2y ago

Unpopular opinion: Developers are some of the most demanding customers to please with developer tools, and are one of the hardest business to make a profit in. When we feel something is a ripoff... we'll build ourselves/migrate/adopt a new tool. Often out of spite!

@ericminick.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good job IBM! Pleased for my former coworkers as earnings and all that are up and to the right. Seems like Arvind is the real deal.

@ericminick.bsky.social · 2y ago

30 years old now… but a treasured “historic artifact.” One day your the leading trade rag for BBSes the next you are reporting on the replacement for your market niche. It’s important to see it and face it.

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@ericminick.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know SoftBank has done some good stuff but when I hear about their involvement in a poorly defined $500 billion project my mind goes to “the guys who funded WeWork?”