Emily Bache

The value of conferences is in curation [selection of talks], mentoring [of speakers] and conferring [speaking together]https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1302066383241478144 …

There’s a difference between habitable and luxury. I think in terms of ergonomics and affordances. A manager should understand that the same cook in a well-equipped, ergonomic kitchen will be more effective than in a messy, poorly designed kitchen with substandard tools.

A 150-year-old bank trying to act like a 300-person Swedish music start-up is basically the enterprise equivalent of dad dancing.

Agility at scale with quality requires a process of continuous integration and continuous deployment of measurable executables delivered by teams with local responsibility, engineered in the context of a global architecture.

The data is pretty consistent, pairs take about 60% of the time of an individual to finish a task. So not quite twice as fast, but they produce significantly higher quality code. I know people react against two people working together, but they’re wrong, the data is against themhttps://twitter.com/dragosgeornoiu/status/1301964013488791553 …

A very common side-effect of not improving legacy code is losing developers. Most people don't want to put up with bad code that will never get better.

I’m a fan of @KevlinHenney’s “habitable code”. As a developer you often live inside some pretty hostile codebases. Making them habitable seems like a good direction.

We had very good results in aligning in a team with pair programming where pairs change every sprint and where we have a weekly MOB share session to share new tricks or doubts.

I think code reviews are good, but pair-programming is better and pair-programming combined with TDD, acceptance tests and Deployment Pipelines is best of all https://twitter.com/jhumelsine/status/1301899442845609985 …

It's on me to do better. Here's the most important blog post I've ever written. | A Tester's Journey: I Am white https://www.lisihocke.com/2020/09/i-am-white.html …

3 teammates & I tried mob programming today. Stunning results as everybody leaved the session with the same knowledge level even with a crew composed of developers & ops. Definitely a great tool to break barriers !

The problem with the term "clean code" is it's used as both a generic term for code aesthetics and organization and as specific jargon for Robert Martin's highly idiosyncratic philosophy on code aesthetics, which he also calls "Clean Code".

Just tried JetBrain’s new plugin for remote #mobprogramming and #pairprogramming with @pdmoore and @AyerstTom First feedback: 1/

You cannot really push a team to change in a direction they do not want, you can only invite them to change and clear a path to make it easy for them to learn.

1/2 There's an old and unresolved debate about whether TDD is a testing technique or a software design technique. Allow me to alienate everyone by suggesting it's both. When I guide my low-level design with examples, it helps me produce good code (for some definition of "good").

(UTC) 12pm - @branaby > A deep dive into the Gilded Rose 1pm - @emilybache > Approval Testing 2pm - @JoBoccara > 7 Techniques to Understand Existing Code 3pm - @khaledsouf > TCR is your best testing friend against Legacy 4pm - @mscottford > Makers vs. Menders

Is it possible to Test Drive (#TDD) a UI with fast tests, e.g. #Android or #reactjs ? Is it still TDD? https://blog.code-cop.org/2020/07/tdd-ui-with-fast-ui-tests.html … With help from @bastien_david and @dtanzer.