Dear recruiters, here is why developers don’t respond to your messages

Over the past few years, I worked with over half a dozen teams claiming to be agile and implement some version of Scrum.Over the past few years, I worked with over half a dozen teams claiming to be agile and implement some version of Scrum. Even though on paper they were all doing some form of Scrum, in practice, my experience varied wildly from one team to another. It’s almost as if the term “agile” has become meaningless.Even though on paper they were all doing some form of Scrum, in practice, my experience varied wildly from one team to another. It’s almost as if the term “agile” has become meaningless. This isn’t a rant against Scrum and agile but rather a semi-structured, subjective review of what I think works well and what doesn’t.This isn’t a rant against Scrum and agile but rather a semi-structured, subjective review of what I think works well and what doesn’t.

I used to be a big fan of Spotify. Today I cancelled my subscription.

Maybe don't listen to that guy on HN that tells you to rewrite your SPA in jQuery...

It is a yearly tradition to make a list of predictions for the upcoming year (2023) that will probably look redicilous in 365 days.

In the recent few weeks, like millions of people, I jumped on the Mastodon bandwagon. After over a decade on Twitter, I was ready for something else. And Musk’s clown-show gave me the push I needed to do a leap of faith.