The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Bad Release Processes

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If you need to wait any non-trivial amount of time between completing something and seeing how well it’s performing, you’re not going to be working on that project by the time you get your answer. When you do get your … Continue reading

My Office Is Now A Playground

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Thanks to a good number and Jason’s phenomenal choice of a Yankee Swap gift, this is what my office now looks like: I don’t know that I’ll ever actually do work again. (Not pictured: Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots, Rubik’s … Continue reading

All the Way Broken is Better Than Partially Broken

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Oddly, I learned a fun lesson today: All the way broken is far better than partially broken. I think I implicitly knew that–debugging completely broken things is far easier than debugging something that works sometimes–but our network at work today … Continue reading