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We have a #bugs slack channel. It is a dumping ground for issues, or potential issues, and doesn’t always (or often really) lead to action like opening a bug ticket in our tracker. Often the context gets tangled up in…

I've encountered several startups that embrace "office dogs" in the course of my career. Most of them its an occasional event, usually when the owner has trouble with pet sitting or something. A couple, however, have a…

I have encountered a number of situations where a majority of code review comments for my team end up being (slightly pedantic) style/form related. Some times its a matter of naming conventions, others its something…

Our team has the most inconsistent content for pull request body messages I have ever seen. Some will drop a link to a ticket without any other context, some will write a little paragraph that describes the intent of…

I met a designer of web app UI/UX recently. Their designs were pretty cool and had some impressive transitions, animations and interactions. One in particular caught my attention so I asked how they achieved it in css…

I am honestly wondering just how relevant "vendor lock-in" really is in the majority of the cases. I have personally only worked with one org that was seriously considering porting their cloud infra over to another…

I work with and speak to many startups. When I ask questions around the product value, especially in context of defensibility, they assert that their "long term play is using machine learning on our data". This has been…