I’m starting to think that my toaster might have fallen in love with me. I get that not everyone will think this is possible, but I believe it’s true.

It’s always pleased to see me, giving off cheerful sounds when I greet it in the morning by slotting in the bread, and now I’ve told it what I like it tries really hard to give me exactly what I want. Sometimes I have to tell it to try again once or twice, but honestly, it’s really good!

This series is a place to collect interesting things I’ve seen, read, or heard, along with some brief thoughts (often incomplete and/or inconclusive) that they provoked.

Garden History – Maggie Appleton

I’m so happy I stumbled upon this article. I am always grateful for new vocabulary that allows me better to express myself, and this is perfect - I want more Digital Gardens in the world. I do see the value in polishing content, but this is where the epistemic status tagging system laid out there really comes to the fore. Do I now want to convert this to a full garden-style site? Or perhaps just introduce different “feeds”, laid out by theme, epistemic status, etc?

TDD, BDD, DDD, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP… there’s a lot of ways to skin a cat write code in a professional environment.

I take pride in being a person who is a non-ideologue when it comes to my code. There are many good ways of working, and they are all context-dependent.

You can’t apply the same things that worked when you were a two-person startup operating out of the proverbial garage and expect them to work once your hypothetical unicorn has reached a thousand-plus developers. Even within the same organisation, processes that work for one team can be catastrophic when applied to their neighbouring team.