Who has the patience for videos longer than a minute? Not America, apparently. So every now and then I'll put some short videos of big ideas together and hope a bunch of fractional eyeballs will add up to one real person's attention.
Cinder block developers
What Scott means when he says he's a cinder block developer. Clipped from Hotfix v42.0.1.
Oh, and here's that episode of The Secret Life of Machines on washing machines
AI is exposing order-takers
One thing few people are talking about is how it's not as simple as people being sticks in the mud with respect to the adoption of AI tools, it's that once they get their hands on this tremendously capable set of tools, they lack the imagination to find any use for it. "They've been given this rocket ship and they've got no fucking clue where to fly it."
Clipped from the back half of my discussion with Scott Werner on Hotfix.
What is Refactoring?
Realized I managed to shit out a decent definition of the word "refactoring" in 30 seconds when I was editing this longer video on career advice, so may as well clip it for posterity. Both were pulled from v31 of Breaking Change.
The Wrong Programmers
I'm as big a fan of searching for environmental and systemic explanations when expectations are missed, but that doesn't mean that sometimes the blame lies with the skill of the people doing the job. Decided I'm going to stop pretending as if that's never the case.
The Baby Store
Why I didn't have kids, despite the fact a lot of men seem weirdly OK with pretending they have zero regrets.
This clip is from v30 of Breaking Change.