Tag Archives: software development

Developer Optimism

Posted on September 7, 2022 by way0utwest

Developers, in general, are very optimistic about the code they write. This is likely one cause of their estimates of the time required being low, as well as the various bugs that slip through because of corner cases that appear … Continue reading →

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The Craziness of Code

Posted on April 25, 2022 by way0utwest

Every once in a while I find a fun post that makes fun of programming. I think because the author is struggling with some piece of code, they write about the craziness of software development, often with an analogy that … Continue reading →

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Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever

Posted on April 22, 2022 by way0utwest

A number of you likely use Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, Opsgenie, or something else. You might have been affected by a large outage they had (post incident blog, Company Q&A, TechRepublic report) recently which lasted at least 9 days. … Continue reading →

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The Backlog

Posted on April 8, 2022 by way0utwest

Software development is complex these days. Maybe it’s always been complex, but the shorter timelines and greater vision of what is currently happening in development teams mean that we can see a lot is going on at any particular time. … Continue reading →

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