In those situations, the more productive option to course-correct is to talk to the change author in a meeting/chat instead of just volleying off a tsunami of comments about various minutiae in the change IMO.
> When you receive a review with a hundred comments, it’s very hard to engage with that review on anything other than a trivial level. Wow, that seems crazy. I can only hope I never have to work with somebody who thinks…
A design philosophy called "Progressive Disclosure" tries to tackle this problem, where a tool is supposed to present a minimal set of functionality initially to allow a user to be productive without being an expert and…
For most self help / productivity books, I agree pretty strongly with this take. A lot of those types of books (Atomic Habits, Getting Things Done, Measure What Matters as some examples) often feel like they could have…
Ah, thanks!
- The SMTP client they implemented could insert a newline such that a line was comprised of only a single period. - The SMTP client spec says that an additional period would be added here. - The SMTP server spec says…
> While not traditional TDD or likely not a new concept, I’ve done something I’ve dubbed TLD (Test Led Development). Rather than writing a whole smattering of tests and then coding until they all pass, TLD focuses on…
In those situations, the more productive option to course-correct is to talk to the change author in a meeting/chat instead of just volleying off a tsunami of comments about various minutiae in the change IMO.
> When you receive a review with a hundred comments, it’s very hard to engage with that review on anything other than a trivial level. Wow, that seems crazy. I can only hope I never have to work with somebody who thinks…
A design philosophy called "Progressive Disclosure" tries to tackle this problem, where a tool is supposed to present a minimal set of functionality initially to allow a user to be productive without being an expert and…
For most self help / productivity books, I agree pretty strongly with this take. A lot of those types of books (Atomic Habits, Getting Things Done, Measure What Matters as some examples) often feel like they could have…
Ah, thanks!
- The SMTP client they implemented could insert a newline such that a line was comprised of only a single period. - The SMTP client spec says that an additional period would be added here. - The SMTP server spec says…
> While not traditional TDD or likely not a new concept, I’ve done something I’ve dubbed TLD (Test Led Development). Rather than writing a whole smattering of tests and then coding until they all pass, TLD focuses on…