#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #dailyscrum #standup #standups #blockers #whatdidyoudoyesterday #scrumhumor #memes #Meme #Humor #humour

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Enjoy some Backlog Bourbon 🥃

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #backlogrefinement #backlog #StoryPoints #userstory #requirementsgap #codinghumor #programmer_humor #programmer #qahumor #Qatesting #memes #Meme #Humor #humour

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#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #piplanning #ScaledAgileFramework #safe #ScaledAgileFrameworkIsntAgile #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

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Sonic the hedgehog saying anyone who hates PI planning is my friend without introduction

My take on `box-sizing: border-box` https://www.reddit.com/r/css/comments/1tblbzy/comment/oliq6z6/

TL;DR unlearn adding it to the reset, as well as setting dimensions (width/ height) explicitly.

👋 to @kevinpowell for giving me a video to link to 😀

👋 to @mia for the cool article on `body` margin to reference 😎

#CSS #code #coding #cssLayout #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #leadership #management #executives #aicoding #AI #aicodingtools #aicoding #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

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GitLab CFO, Brian Robins, says they are “aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less. What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does.”

https://archive.is/okSlz

You either support fascism or you don’t. It’s binary. There’s no gray area or “aligning.”

Considering GitLab? Don’t.

Use @Codeberg instead.

(Hat tip @aphyr)

#Code #Dev #Development #Codeberg #GitLab #Fascism #GIT

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #executives #priorities #leadership #tokenmaxxing #tokens #AI #aicoding #coding #programming #programminghumor #codinghumor #programmer_humor #memes #Meme #Humor #humour

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Four panel comic of Leela and Bender from Futurama. Leela is labeled Executive and says "Yoy need to be token maxxing to be considered useful to the company" Bender laughs in response Then Bender says "Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder" Bender then laughs again.

In an Agile sense, do you think the time a task spends in "blocked" (eg waiting on a third party) counts as time spent on the task?

#softwareengineering #agile #dev

I haven't clicked the link yet, but I guess I should also reannounce Robert Smith's new #IDE for #commonLisp #typeTheory #staticTyping super-macro (#coalton) #dev named mine.

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

@vindarel @sanityinc @simon_brooke @jackdaniel @dougmerritt (reverse-chronological earlier toots).

EDIT:
Simon Brooke's review was a major topic in the sunday-morning-in-europe #lispygopherclimate see
https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116469933987641020

Question for the Python people: How do you handle type checking in CI? Do you just install all the dependencies every time the pipeline runs? Do you have some logic to install missing type stubs (or the real dependencies, if there are no stubs)? Something else entirely?

#python #ci #cicd #dev

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #jira #mess #memes #Meme #Humor #humour

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Great engineering organisations reward prevention, not heroics.

The best teams celebrate:

• fewer incidents
• fewer emergencies
• fewer late nights

Quiet reliability beats dramatic rescues.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

If urgent work keeps appearing, it's not a developer problem.

It's a prioritisation and leadership problem.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

A good rule for engineering teams:

“We can work faster temporarily.

But we cannot work faster forever.”
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Healthy engineering teams don't rely on heroes.

They rely on:

• planning
• prioritisation
• automation
• sustainable pace

Heroics should be the exception, not the operating model.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Hero culture doesn't scale.

The most committed engineers eventually burn out, leave, or disengage.

The organisation loses its strongest people.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Every time developers rush urgent work:

• Testing gets skipped
• Documentation disappears
• Technical debt grows

You didn't move faster.

You just moved the cost into the future.

#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

A feature delivered in 3 weeks of sustainable work might be forced into 1 week with late nights and weekends.

Leadership often remembers the 1 week, not the human cost.

Heroics distort reality.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

#scrum #scrumteam #dev #developer #qa #scrummaster #productowner #sprint #sprintgoals #sprintplanning #overcapacity #Meme #memes #Humor #humour

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Picture of small trucks carrying large oversized loads while driving down a road Caption: Scrum teams leaving sprint planning with planned loads acceptable to leadership

The fastest way to destroy good planning is to reward firefighting.

If teams are celebrated for last-minute rescues, the organisation will slowly create more fires.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

When engineering teams deliver urgent work through heroics, management doesn't see the cost.

They see a new baseline.

What was achieved through exhaustion becomes tomorrow's expectation.
#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells #Heroics

Healthy teams operate like this:
Plan → Protect → Deliver → Improve
Unhealthy teams operate like this:
React → Overtime → Chaos → Repeat
Fix the flow of work, and everything improves: delivery, morale, and quality. #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

A simple operating model:
Work Intake → Backlog → Prioritisation → Planning → Delivery
No side channels.
No hidden work. #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

Protect the team from constant stakeholder pressure. Developers shouldn’t negotiate scope with everyone in the company.
Use clear roles:
• Product prioritises
• Engineering plans capacity
• Stakeholders request work #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

Reduce Work in Progress (WIP).
Bad: 8 developers working on 20 things.
Better: 8 developers working on 8 things.
Less multitasking = faster delivery. #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

You know how you’re in the middle of a process and you refresh a web page and it loses state?

So that sucks.

With Kitten¹ – when using the new state-maintaining/class-based and event model-based component model – it’s easy to have flowing interfaces that animate between states, etc., that don’t lose state if you refresh the page (or open another tab).

What you can’t do on the Web, however, is restore the state of any cross-origin iframes. (As you have no visibility into their contents to take a snapshot, etc.)

This is something I ran into with the embedded Stripe component I’m using in Catalyst². Specifically, it has a success state that I want to restore so the interface, which uses selective disclosure and has animated to that step in the sign up process, doesn’t jump if you refresh it or look different if you open it in another tab.

So what do you do if you’re obsessed with making things work as well as possible?

Apparently, this:

1. You go and manually save the Stripe iframe’s HTML and relevant CSS

2. You notice that it is ~371KB in size and you sigh

3. You use a combination of automated and manual methods to whittle that down to a 4.2KB HTML/CSS snapshot of the state.

4. You make that into a Kitten component³ so you can set the bits that are dynamic⁴

5. You make sure that it matches the original exactly using PixelSnap 2 guides⁵ (see screenshot; and yes, I told you I’m obsessed) :)

6. Et voila!

🤷‍♂️

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://catalyst.small-web.org
³ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/components-and-fragments/
⁴ https://codeberg.org/project-catalyst/app/src/commit/a3cf136f3670a9e2954a35d5b3aa227969f22eaf/sign-up/SuccessfulStripeSubscription.fragment.js
⁵ https://pixelsnap.com

#Catalyst #SmallWeb #design #Stripe #iframes #stateRestoration #web #dev

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Screenshot of the restored state of the Stripe component’s success state using a mock HTML/CSS snapshot of the state with some dynamic areas included. The screen is full of horizontal and vertical guides aligned to areas of the success message to ensure that the mock is pixel perfect.

Weekend work is usually a system design problem, not a motivation problem. Common causes:
• unrealistic commitments
• hidden work
• too much work in progress
• unclear ownership #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

Track where time actually goes. Most teams discover something like:
• 40% planned work
• 35% unplanned work
• 15% interruptions
• 10% meetings
Once visible, you can fix the system.#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

The golden rule of delivery: If new work is added, something else must be removed. Without this rule: Planning becomes theatre. #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

Planning fails when teams pretend capacity is infinite. Reality includes:
• support
• incidents
• meetings
• tech debt
• interruptions
Healthy teams plan for ~60–70% planned work and reserve the rest for unplanned work. #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

Most chaos starts with no work intake process. Work arrives through:
• IM
• Emails
• Meetings
• Leadership requests
• “Quick favours”
Rule #1: If it isn’t in the backlog/ticket system, it doesn’t exist. #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells

If everything is urgent, nothing is prioritised. Without clear prioritisation:
• Planned work slips
• Interruptions dominate
• Teams go reactive
• Weekends become normal #Software #Dev #Agile #Smells