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Half-baked Agile
I have been involved in leading several agile transformations at this stage in my career. In every case many of those around me held firm to a core belief that…
Google and Apple block update to England’s contact-tracing app over privacy violation
An update to NHS’s COVID-19 app has been blocked by Apple and Google for violating their location data collection rules. Source: Google and Apple block update to England’s contact-tracing app…
Fjellfolk Weekly Roundup – 4th April 2021
Thought for the week As the public sector and the private sector collaborate to respond to the need for quick and reliable testing in the face of the Covid pandemic,…
Evening Photo Walk
I was inspired to get out and take some photos in the crisp evening air of Copenhagen in December. Just days away from the winter solstice, it is dark by…
The “Shift Left” Approach: A Heuristic Breadth First Search Analogy
In the realm of technology and software development, the phrase “shift left” has gained significant traction. At its core, the “shift left” approach emphasizes the importance of addressing issues and…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.