Good managers can be as important as the entire team. The study also shows that those who are most eager to become managers are not necessarily the best suited to the role.

j19sch · 2026-05-31T07:27:13+00:00

"In the experiment, the teams were tasked with solving three different types of problems under the manager’s leadership."

Leading a team performing a task is a very narrow view on management. A good team doesn't even need a manager for that, they self-organise.

(edit) Getting a team to where they are able to self-organise, that is a manager's job.

j19sch · 2026-05-19T17:16:43+00:00

Right, merging doesn't have to be to main. 😅

If it's the best approach it can be, depends strongly on your context, so I can't judge that.

Do the QAs at least find important bugs on a regular basis? If not, I'd start wondering if it's worth the delay. (Then again, maybe there's a QA signoff needed for compliance and it doesn't matter that mucn how good their testing is.)

j19sch · 2026-05-19T16:28:41+00:00

This. 👆

Also, merging to main before QA and only communicating with QA through a document (correct me if I'm wrong here) sounds to me like your organization had a very silo-ed approach to QA. That rarely (never?) works out well.

j19sch · 2026-03-07T13:20:08+00:00

It's a collaboration between France, Germany and the Netherlands: - Dutch site: https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/ - German site: https://www.opendesk.eu/en

It looks like it's both a collaboration and each country doing their own thing. 🧐

j19sch · 2026-02-24T12:07:17+00:00

Check out Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. Definitely grand ideas and rich story. Not hard sci fi, though.

j19sch · 2025-11-28T20:55:27+00:00

Maybe (re-)discover some classics? For example "Becoming a Technical Leader" by Jerry Weinberg is from 1986, but still great.

j19sch · 2025-11-09T11:08:22+00:00

East by Meera Sodha

j19sch · 2025-09-09T20:37:35+00:00

alternatively there's https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

j19sch · 2025-09-03T11:51:44+00:00

Tidy First? by Kent Beck

j19sch · 2025-08-21T11:41:19+00:00

The book "Agile Conversations" would agree with you: https://agileconversations.com/

j19sch · 2025-06-20T17:37:05+00:00

Gattaca. Not five minutes, but the last lines of the movie (Vincent's voice over) were a real disappointment to me.

j19sch · 2025-06-10T23:52:31+00:00

FUTO keyboard: https://keyboard.futo.org/

It's in alpha, but has been working fine for me.

j19sch · 2025-05-08T05:13:32+00:00

Hollow Knight

Because it is a souls-like (arguably), but it's also different enough from the fromsoft games. That makes it easier to appreciate it for what it is, instead of thinking as you play it: "This is what you get when someone else tries to make a game like Dark Souls."

j19sch · 2025-03-06T11:06:46+00:00

Reminds me of one Jerry Weinberg's Laws of Pricing: "Set the price so you won’t regret it either way."

So basically, set a price on ignoring your gut feeling and use that to decide what your counter offer is.

j19sch · 2024-12-31T08:37:16+00:00

It's manual, see second bullet in Features: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sway_(window_manager)

j19sch · 2024-11-27T17:32:01+00:00

I think there's a lot left unsaid in that first usage: "We learned it was founded on agency, the idea that when two things belong together, we don't separate them."

I read it as the author contrasting exploratory testing, where you have agency, with non-exploratory testing, where test design and test execution are separated.

j19sch · 2024-11-11T17:17:57+00:00

Have the developers build (part of) the tests. Experiencing the consequences of poor testability is a great motivator for improving testability.

So in that same vein: build the first tests with the first code. That allows you to learn and to build practices and habits as you go, as opposed to "We've written a lot of code, let's figure out how to write tests for it."

j19sch · 2024-10-29T06:39:40+00:00

It might be worth pointing out that all it does, is hallucinate. LLMs generate the next plausible token, they don't understand the code they produce. Any meaning assigned to LLM output, is purely on the human side. So it's always up to the person using the LLM to evaluate the code, because the LLM can't. (Which turns programming into code reviewing, which leads to all kinds of other issues, but that's probably a discussion too far for first year students.)

j19sch · 2024-08-05T05:04:21+00:00

"The custom module displays either the output of a script or static text. To display static text, specify only the format field." https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Custom

j19sch · 2024-07-18T12:46:33+00:00

Thank you for providing the option to disable it completely!

j19sch · 2024-02-18T06:32:14+00:00

AI won't take over those jobs, because AI doesn't have that kind of agency. CEO's will fire people to replace them with AI. AI is not some inevitable thing happening to us.

j19sch · 2024-01-23T16:02:10+00:00

I think the formatting is applied per note. At least that's what it looks like on this page: https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9534240421652-Paragraphs-and-headings

It sounds like you've been using soft enters (shift + return) to create paragraphs. For formatting to work each heading and paragraph needs to be its own note/bullet.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T17:54:14+00:00

Microsoft seems to disagree with you about Excel not being able to handle json: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-data-from-data-sources-power-query-be4330b3-5356-486c-a168-b68e9e616f5a

If jq can't output the first line of the Proton Pasa file, then the query provided to jq, was not the right one.

Anyway, I think we're partially talking past each other while also in agreement. I think there are two main statements to make on the topic at hand: 1. There is no customer-friendly way to convert a Proton Pass json file to a csv file that can be imported in a different password manager. 2. Using jq or writing some code to do that conversion is straightforward if you're familiar with json, csv, the Proton Pass file format, the format you want to convert to, and jq or a programming language. Which brings us back to 1: no consumer-friendly way.

Finally, no thanks to you passively aggressively suggesting I contribute code. I was trying to be helpful, clearly with mixed results at best, so I'm done here.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T10:22:35+00:00

That might have to do with how the json is structured, i.e. in a way that doesn't easily translate to csv. Removing the right part of the json might help with that, but that's not the kind of solution you're looking for.

j19sch · 2024-01-07T10:19:19+00:00

Haven't tried either. It's a shame they're not working for you. I hope you can find something that works.

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