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Take the time to do it right the first time but also don't waste time if it doesn't add value.

Having a process is great but if the process exceeds the value then the process not only harms profit margins but also erodes morale. If the reason a process exists is to counter bad behavior then it's an employee problem not a process problem.

Open office floorplans are a terrible idea!

Work from home shouldn't be considered a given based on the job tasks but a privilege and benefit extended to those employees that have shown the discipline and reliability to work from home. But the in office requirement shouldn't be forced on everyone just to satisfy a "butts in seat policy" or a managers insecurity.

"installing a library" should not exist as a concept. A library is either so essential that the OS needs it (and therefore it is already installed), or is not essential enough that each program can have its own copy of the library.

"But I want all my 3 programs that use this random library to be updated at the same time in case a security flaw is found in it!" Is no excuse for the millions of hours wasted looking for missing dependencies or dependencies not available for your system. If that library does have a security vulnerability your package manager should just find your 3 programs that use it and update their copy of the library.

Snapshot tests suck. That's a test that stores the dom (or I guess any json serializable thing) and when you run the test again, compares what you have now to what it has saved.

No one is going to carefully examine a 300 line json diff. They're just going to say "well I updated the file so it makes sense it changed" and slap the update button.

Theoretically you could only feed it very small things, but if that's the case you could also just assert on what's important yourself.

Snapshots don't encode intent. They make everything look just as important as everything else. And then hotshot developers think they have 100% coverage

If people used a language that actually leverages the strengths of dynamic typing, they wouldn't dislike it so much.

I encourage every programmer to build a Smalltalk program from the ground up while it's running the entire time. It really is a joy

Your favorite AI enabled LLM does a very, very good job of simulating language tests based on previous tests and there's no reason at all not to use it to study and prepare.

Abilify is a beautiful long term maintenance med but wholly inappropriate for an acutely agitated and combative patient.