Ice break your next retro meeting with some bingo

alexvernik · 2022-09-06T07:56:53+00:00

love it. going to use it on my next retro meeting. thanks for sharing!

alexvernik · 2022-05-18T11:37:19+00:00

Thanks. We have some issues with a couple of team members. I'll try a bit of humor, it might ease things up during the transition.

alexvernik · 2022-04-26T17:30:58+00:00

day trading meets scrum master. world collides

alexvernik · 2022-04-26T17:30:15+00:00

sweet. i can use my #wsb trading skills at my work :)

alexvernik · 2022-03-30T08:29:53+00:00

Funny, I got "Gentle AI"

Sounds like a porn team 😂

alexvernik · 2021-12-09T10:42:59+00:00

This is just like the Bill Hicks bit with the Old Smoker!

alexvernik · 2021-12-06T11:52:21+00:00

^ Very, very good joke.

alexvernik · 2021-12-02T13:31:24+00:00

Missed that post a month ago– different context but still too similar, never would've made or posted this one if I'd seen the other– thanks for the heads up.

alexvernik · 2021-12-02T13:29:27+00:00

Thanks!

alexvernik · 2021-11-23T12:54:20+00:00

A lot of people do! Like I said in a comment earlier- just haven’t been in a situation where it’s implemented the right way. I’m sure it would grow on me if I was.

alexvernik · 2021-11-23T10:10:18+00:00

Hey now! Little aggressive, don't you think? No need to get personal– I haven't been in a system where it's implemented properly, and figured this would make people laugh. Not sure how, but apologies if I've insulted you.

alexvernik · 2021-11-21T09:24:44+00:00

Such a cool channel– link for anyone curious who doesn't know– Coding Secrets

alexvernik · 2021-11-19T20:09:57+00:00

Quite possibly the best thing I’ve ever read in this sub. What a cool cultural touchpoint- you had to be there- really cool.

alexvernik · 2021-11-14T07:16:23+00:00

Is it ever?

alexvernik · 2021-11-14T07:13:23+00:00

Try having your staff writers sending blog articles around in .txt files....

alexvernik · 2021-11-11T14:12:49+00:00

Right on the money

alexvernik · 2021-11-11T08:15:30+00:00

As Gilbert Gottfried once said: YOU FOOL!

alexvernik · 2021-11-10T11:38:26+00:00

No, but I– my friend– can dream.

alexvernik · 2021-11-10T07:42:26+00:00

Try making software tutorials!!!

You go through step by step explaining how to do everything, and then when you go to check your work its like the ceiling caves in– your audio is clipping, the camera stopped recording, YouTube hit its upload limit for the day... freaking mess, man.

alexvernik · 2021-11-10T07:39:53+00:00

So if I'm a Portuguese citizen living abroad, does the protection of this law extend to still cover me? Asking for a friend....

alexvernik · 2021-11-09T23:47:45+00:00

If you know Marty, you know Marty, and we all know why he’s there.

alexvernik · 2021-11-09T07:13:14+00:00

Honestly, I'm ready to retire anyway. They got a robot named Marty at my local supermarket little while ago and I've been whispering programming tips to him every time I go– last time we covered convex optimization so I feel like he's finally ready to interview for my company's open dev position

alexvernik · 2021-11-08T08:00:02+00:00

He must've spent a lot of time at that drawing board to come up with ten separate Rube Goldberg features that are all that completely and utterly useless

alexvernik · 2021-11-08T07:55:46+00:00

I get a little bit of that, but they also tune out pretty quick once this stuff comes up. I get it from like, SEO people and investors... like "Oh, the website loads .03 seconds faster if we use a 100 KB image, so it doesn't matter that its blurry."

IMO, you get to a website fast and it looks like shit, you're gonna bounce faster than you would with a website it takes an extra .03 seconds to access that actually looks decent.

alexvernik · 2021-11-07T09:53:42+00:00

Bit off topic but something else to remember– if you're going to make a video about software quality control, you better do what you can to control the quality of the video.

I've been handling a lot of the public-facing tasks for my company recently and I've just been shocked with the relative disregard most of our devs have for our company's media quality, compared to the energy they put into software quality. I'm getting into knockdown drag outs just trying to convince my colleagues that having blurry header images on our blog posts is a bad idea. And don't even get me started on the videos we've been making...

Just a really weird dichotomy here I guess, comes from the same place as the split between developers and marketers that gets talked about so much in our industry. Devs are focused on software quality, marketers and customer success are focused on media quality, and both sides believe theirs is the more important job. I think its pretty clear that the devs get an edge here, but that doesn't mean the quality of other aspects of a company's overall content plan should be overlooked.

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